thread-paper
noun1
A piece of thin soft paper for wrapping up a skein of thread.
- [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.1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 219:
- And you, God bless me, you're only a thread-paper!1925, Stanley John Weyman, “XIV Anna Furens”, in Queen's Folly: