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noun

Wrapper n.

One who, or that which, wraps.

That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering.

Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's wrapper.

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Etymology of 'Wrapper'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wrapper" Quotes from Famous Books

... Theatre the night before last) has a pine-apple in her lap. Compact Enchantress's friend, confidante, mother, mystery, Heaven knows what, has two pine-apples in her lap, and a bundle of them under the seat. Tobacco-smoky Frenchman in Algerine wrapper, with peaked hood behind, who might be Abd-el- Kader dyed rifle-green, and who seems to be dressed entirely in dirt and braid, carries pine-apples in a covered basket. Tall, grave, melancholy Frenchman, with black Vandyke beard, and hair ...

— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens

... fascinate the wide awake Girls of the present day who are between the ages of eight and fourteen years. The great author of these books regards them as the best products of her pen. Printed from large clear type on a superior quality of paper; attractive multi-color jacket wrapper around each ...

— Luke Walton • Horatio Alger

... wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell? O cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various

... a pretty winter dining-room, where she was at breakfast, while playing with a monkey tethered by a chain to a little pole with climbing bars of iron. The Countess was in an elegant wrapper; the curls of her hair, carelessly pinned up, escaped from a cap, giving her an arch look. She was fresh and smiling. Silver, gilding, and mother-of-pearl shone on the table, and all about the room were rare plants growing in magnificent china jars. As he saw Colonel Chabert's wife, rich ...

— Colonel Chabert • Honore de Balzac

... drew his 'Boston wrapper' still closer around him, hitched up his mittens, and with elastic step breasted a wintry storm that might have repelled even the more elastic movement of juvenility, and wended up the avenue. Although I cannot irreverently say ...

— Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the Unied States • William H. Seward

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