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silver paper

noun

British.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of silver paper1

First recorded in 1810–20
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The image, taken from a Christmas advert filmed in August, show showed red, green and silver paper hats burning in a fireplace.

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THE FACTS: The image shows red, green and silver paper hats — traditionally worn at British Christmas dinners — burning in a fireplace.

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Strings of twinkling Christmas lights hung from the ceiling between the stars he'd helped to cut out from silver paper.

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With a growing grin, Odunze admired his handiwork — a box neatly wrapped with silver paper … and no noticeable tape.

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In the meantime, Mrs. Joe put clean white curtains up, and tacked a new flowered flounce across the wide chimney to replace the old one, and uncovered the little state parlour across the passage, which was never uncovered at any other time, but passed the rest of the year in a cool haze of silver paper, which even extended to the four little white crockery poodles on the mantel-shelf, each with a black nose and a basket of flowers in his mouth, and each the counterpart of the other.

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