| 释义 |
papering, vbl. n.|ˈpeɪpərɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
1. a. The action of the verb paper; covering or decoration with paper. b. concr. Paper with which the walls of a room are covered, paper-hangings.
1825Greenhouse Comp. I. 248 The most suitable colours..for the temporary painting, chalking, or papering. 1841Thackeray Gt. Hoggarty Diam. (1849) x. 130 The painting, papering, and carpeting of my house. 1843Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 203 Your modest allowance for painting and papering. 1855Mrs. Gaskell North & S. I. viii. 97 It needed the pretty light papering of the rooms to reconcile them to Milton. 1883Harper's Mag. Feb. 365/1 This room remains in its original state, with the exception of the papering. 1928A. Huxley Let. 25 Oct. (1969) 302 The main work is done..all painting and papering. 1975P. Dickinson Lively Dead xxi. 125, I do want to get the papering done before my son comes back. He's an absolute devil with glue.
2. (See quot. 1966.)
1798Jane Austen Let. 1 Dec. (1952) 35 My long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering. 1815R. Fenton Mem. Old Wig 9 Having undergone the varied ordeal of papering, pinching, crimping, baking, and torture a thousand ways, I was promoted to thatch the cranium of the notorious judge Jefferies. 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 108/1 Papering, 18th cent. term for placing the paper papillotes around the wound hair preparatory to pinching it with hot pinching irons. |