wrappered

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English

Etymology

From wrapper +‎ -ed.

Adjective

wrappered (not comparable)

  1. Having a wrapper.
    • 1916, Fannie Hurst, “Rolling Stock”, in Every Soul Hath Its Song, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers , page 88:
      On the ground floor of a dim house in a dim street, which by the contrivance of its occupants had been converted from its original role of dark and sinister dining-room to wareroom for a dozen or more perambulators on high, rubber-tired wheels, Alphonse Michelson and Gertie Dobriner stood in conference with a dark-wrappered figure, her blue-checked apron wound muff fashion about her hands.
    • 1921, The London Mercury, page 520:
      ENGLISH booksellers and English readers do not as a rule like wrappered books.
    • 1926, Thomas Bird Mosher, The Mosher Books: A List of Belles Lettres Issued in Limited Editions, page 12:
      These little Italian wrappered books of verse are, from an artistic standpoint, the choicest things I have ever been able to offer, and are limited to the present edition.
    • 1997, Gina Apostol, Bibliolepsy, University of the Philippines Press, →ISBN, page 17:
      To girls in convent school, it was the mark of a subversive or a pervert to have a book covered in brown wrapper. On the jeepney rides forbidden to the girls, a man in the front seat might have an opened, brown-wrappered book on his lap while he watched the ascent of every girl or woman onto the jeep.
    • 2010, David Alan Richards, Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliography, Oak Knoll Press, →ISBN, page 2:
      The ruled lines and decorations are generally to be found in the white-wrappered copies (to hand after the young Kipling’s return home), but seldom in the brown-wrappered copies