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flock paper
noun
- a wallpaper treated with flock to emphasize a design or effect.
flock paper
noun
- a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern See also flock 2
Word History and Origins
Origin of flock paper1
Example Sentences
The luncheon was laid in a low room, with a beam running across the ceiling; the walls, once bright with red flock paper and much gilding, were soiled and dull now, after the manner of a great many of our dining-rooms.
It was a large room, going far back, and the rich old red flock paper was peeling from the walls in long strips, and blackened with vague patches of rising damp; the ancient clay, the dank reeking earth rising up again, and subduing all the work of men's hands after the conquest of many years.
The room was gloomy with dark red curtains and dark flock paper.
It was never very light in that room, for the walls were covered with a crimson flock paper and the woodwork was black; while the windows, which looked on the canal, were always shaded till dark.
It was a chamber over forty feet long, with dark flock paper and dark curtains, with dark painted wainscoating below the paper, and huge dark mahogany furniture.
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