Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of wrapping.
- noun Anything which wraps, or is used for wrapping; collectively, things used as wraps or wrappers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of wrapping.
- noun That which wraps; envelope; covering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
wrapping . - noun That which wraps; an
envelope orcovering .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But on shore, after having taken off the wrappage, they are, and behave like, real human beings ....
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Just the pampered young minion of any Tuscan court, a precocious wrappage of wit, good manners, and sensibility, he looked what he spoke, the exquisite Florentine, to these broad-vowelled Venetian lasses; did not smile, but seemed never out of temper; and was certainly not timid.
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So, when you have determined whose the style is which enfolds a thought, whose the thought is, is as little worth dispute as, after its wrappage of corn has been shelled off, the cob's ownership is worth a quarrel.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
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I had taken no umbrella, and no outer wrappage; no "carriage" was waiting, nor servant.
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Even Homer seems to feel that philosophy is at last a needful discipline, that the abstract thought must be taken from its concrete wrappage, that the Universal must be freed from the
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Thereupon the monk drew from his bosom a small wrappage of tissues, which when unfolded disclosed a scrap of something hairy.
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The mother sheared the half-grown fleece from a sheep, and in a week had spun, wove, and made it into clothing, the sheep being protected from cold by a wrappage made of braided straw.
Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
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If we try to picture Him to ourselves and give Him a human wrappage, we come back to the simple conception of the early times, we represent Him under the features of an ancestor.
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And her heart seems a perennial spring of affectionate cheerfulness: no trial can break, no sorrow chill, her flow of spirits; even her sighs are breathed forth in a wrappage of innocent mirth; an arch, roguish smile irradiates her saddest tears.
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God, 'therefore we shall always be so, in all worlds, and whatsoever may become of this poor wrappage in which the soul is shrouded.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
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