Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A loose greatcoat worn by people of elegance about 1740, in supposed imitation of the coarse coats of the poorer people; hence, any surtout or long outer garment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of coarse upper coat, or overcoat, formerly worn.
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- noun obsolete A kind of
coarse overcoat .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is the cozy wraprascal, self-indulgence — how easy it is!
Roundabout Papers 2006
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Ah! I thought it was a wraprascal like those made at Thymaetis.
The Wasps 2000
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Ah! I thought it was a wraprascal like those made at
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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I WAS called on the morrow out of a late and troubled slumber by a knocking on my door, ran to open it, and had almost swooned with the contrariety of my feelings, mostly painful; for on the threshold, in a rough wraprascal and an extraordinary big laced hat, there stood James More.
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And I wonder whether you remember a little, lean, lively gentleman in a scratch-wig and a wraprascal, that came to Shaws very late of a dark night, and whom you were awakened out of your beds and brought down to the dining-hall to be presented to, by the name of Mr. Jamieson?
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And I wonder whether you remember a little, lean, lively gentleman in a scratchwig and a wraprascal, that came to Shaws very late of a dark night, and whom you were awakened out of your beds and brought down to the dining-hall to be presented to, by the name of Mr. Jamieson?
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I was called on the morrow out of a late and troubled slumber by a knocking on my door, ran to open it, and had almost swooned with the contrariety of my feelings, mostly painful; for on the threshold, in a rough wraprascal and an extraordinary big laced hat, there stood James More.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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And I wonder whether you remember a little, lean, lively gentleman in a scratch-wig and a wraprascal, that came to Shaws very late of a dark night, and whom you were awakened out of your beds and brought down to the dining-hall to be presented to, by the name of Mr. Jamieson?
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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There is the cozy wraprascal, self-indulgence -- how easy it is!
Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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A stray puzzle supplies wraprascal, a voluminous cloak that could conceal a sword or bludgeon -- and leaves one wondering whether a crossword does what it says or merely tells the solver to do it.
mollusque commented on the word wraprascal
A long, loose overcoat, mostly associated with the 18th century.
December 16, 2007
qms commented on the word wraprascal
I ask as it's colder and wetter
If heat or more clothing is better?
As per my last gas bill
I'll buy a wraprascal
To wind around me in my sweater.
June 20, 2016