flock paper

noun

1. a wallpaper treated with flock to emphasize a design or effect.

flock paper

noun

1. a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern See also flock 2

Word History and Origins

Origin of flock paper¹

First recorded in 1740–50

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.

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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.

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The room was gloomy with dark red curtains and dark flock paper.

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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.

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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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