Wrapper
['ræpə] or ['ræpɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, wraps.
(n.) That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering.
(n.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Envelop, cover, covering.[2]. Dressing-gown.
Checker: Roberta
Examples
- When five of them are finished, two steel fingers remove them and put on the final outside wrapper. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The pages of my poor friend's Journal are waiting for you at my house--sealed up, with your name on the wrapper. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The wrapper addressograph answered the demand of publishers for great speed and 100 per cent accuracy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I come up, after having fallen asleep myself, below, and find you in your wrapper here, with the nightmare. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Pray let me put this wrapper of mine about you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- That she arose thereupon, muffled herself up in a wrapper, put on her shoes, and went out on the staircase, much surprised, to look for Jeremiah. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Nearly every Mexican carried a pouch of leaf tobacco, powdered by rolling in the hands, and a roll of corn husks to make wrappers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It matters little what figures of wonderful no-meaning she began to trace upon her wrappers. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Look at it,' said Betty, opening the wrappers in which the flushed child lay, and showing his small right hand lying closed upon his breast. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The carriage rolled away, and the Frenchwoman, with the wrappers she had brought hanging over her arm, remained standing where she had alighted. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- SPEED, 6,000 TO 8,000 ADDRESSED WRAPPERS PER HOUR] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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