Meaning of wrappered | Babel Free

Definitions

Having a wrapper.

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

“ENGLISH booksellers and English readers do not as a rule like wrappered books.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 […]”

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