The word "wallpaper" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a paper-like material used to cover walls or other surfaces. For example, "We decided to cover the living room walls with some new, modern wallpaper."
Finding it less than a bastion of sophistication, Wilde is said to have remarked: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do".
The 18th century was a golden age; industrialisation in the 19th century brought it to the working classes, and ruined it for the chic and rich; in the late 20th century, wallpaper was passé, but for the past decade it has been back in the fashion spotlight, thanks to the extraordinary creativity of designers such as these.
"We are fascinated by historical and contemporary methods of wallpaper making, and by the possibilities for paper to hold a mark, fold or puncture".
"Back in the early 1990s wards looked pretty grim, aggressive 70s wallpaper patterns peeped through decades of mottled nicotine.
The house was owned by a housing association called Patchwork, who would peel off years' worth of wallpaper (six layers, hanging off the walls) and patch up the damp plaster beneath.
The chancellor, who earns £138,000 and has a £2m stake in his father's luxury wallpaper company, Osborne & Little, also said that his wife claimed the benefit for their two children.
Inside, the domes hark back to the 1960s with loud but stylish wallpaper and retro lampshades.
Open daily from 8am Mon-Fri, 9.30am weekends Run by Guillaume Gil, who formerly worked at the swanky Hotel Plaza Athénée, this arty Left Bank pastry shop and tea room with Marimekko wallpaper pulls a stylish crowd.
"The possibilities wallpaper offers to create or change a space are amazing".
Mi Casa Su Casa was a self-portrait on digitally-printed wallpaper and it launched her career: she has made storytelling wallpapers under the brand name Identity Papers ever since.
The developers have somehow transformed a type of architecture that evolved from a dense urban grain of low-rise courtyards and narrow streets into meaningless wallpaper: an endlessly repeatable pattern for the decoration of standardised slab after standardised slab.
