"thread-paper" meaning in English

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      "form": "thread-papers",
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    {
      "form": "threadpaper",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 219:",
          "text": "[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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925, Stanley John Weyman, “XIV Anna Furens”, in Queen's Folly:",
          "text": "And you, God bless me, you're only a thread-paper!",
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      "glosses": [
        "A piece of thin soft paper for wrapping up a skein of thread."
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        [
          "skein",
          "skein"
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  "word": "thread-paper"
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    {
      "form": "thread-papers",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "threadpaper",
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        "alternative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 219:",
          "text": "[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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925, Stanley John Weyman, “XIV Anna Furens”, in Queen's Folly:",
          "text": "And you, God bless me, you're only a thread-paper!",
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        }
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        "A piece of thin soft paper for wrapping up a skein of thread."
      ],
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      ]
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