thread-paper

English

Alternative forms

• threadpaper

Noun

thread-paper (plural thread-papers)

1. A piece of thin soft paper for wrapping up a skein of thread.
   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 219:

     [H]e takes the opportunity of sauntering up to my dressing-room, where he plays with the children, picks up my thread-paper, insists upon bringing me new music, and on reading to me some novel or poem, with which he is generally furnished.

   • 1925, Stanley John Weyman, “XIV Anna Furens”, in Queen's Folly:

     And you, God bless me, you're only a thread-paper!