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ˈpaper-ˌhanging
1. pl. Paper, usually printed in ornamental designs, used for covering and adorning the walls of a room, etc. (so called as taking the place of the cloth hangings formerly used); wall-paper. Rarely in sing. A piece or length of wall-paper.
1693Lond. Gaz. No. 2899/4 At the Warehouse for New-fashion'd Hangings,..are made and sold strong Paper-Hangings,..at Three-Pence..per Yard. 1759Symmer in Phil. Trans. LI. 365, I was surprised to find it..sticking against the paper-hangings of my room. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. vi. (1880) 101 The art of printing paper-hangings was introduced by some artizans from Rouen.
2. a. The decorating of a room with wall-paper.
Mod. An expert in paper-hanging.
b. The affixing of bills, advertisements, etc., on a bill-board or hoarding.
1851Dickens in Househ. Words 22 Mar. 604/2 [I] Hired a large one [sc. hoarding]..let out places on it, and called it ‘The External Paper-Hanging Station’. 1961Times 21 June 13/6 A hundred years ago ‘paper hanging’ (a term for bill-posting inherited from the eighteenth century) was an irresponsible and pirate trade.
3. slang (orig. U.S.). The passing of forged cheques; forging.
1927Dialect Notes V. 458 Paper hanging,..passing forged cheques. 1930Detective Fiction Weekly 30 Aug. 697/2 ‘Paperhanging’, or passing fictitious checks..is not always a mere matter of offering a check to a merchant and trusting to luck that he will cash it. Many tradesmen make it a rule never to cash a check for a stranger, unless it be a pay check or a certified check; but a clever paper⁓hanger can get around this easily enough. 1932Evening Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 31/5 Paper hanging, forging. 1975C. Weston Susannah Screaming (1976) viii. 42 From paperhanging to murder—that's a pretty big jump. 1976A. Schroeder Shaking it Rough 95 It all involved paper⁓hanging—fake credit cards, rubber checks, [etc.]. |