What does thread-paper mean?

thread-paper

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Frequency: 4.35 in modern English

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

thread-papers (plural) threadpaper (alternative)

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