paper-knife

See also: paperknife

English

Noun

paper-knife (plural paper-knives)

  1. Alternative form of paperknife
    • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:
      The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.
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