wrapper
Americannoun
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a person or thing that wraps.
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a covering or cover.
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a long, loose outer garment.
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a loose bathrobe; negligee.
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British. book jacket.
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the tobacco leaf used for covering a cigar.
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Armor. a supplementary beaver reinforcing the chin and mouth area of an armet of the 15th century.
noun
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the cover, usually of paper or cellophane, in which something is wrapped
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a dust jacket of a book
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the ripe firm tobacco leaf forming the outermost portion of a cigar and wound around its body
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a loose negligee or dressing gown, esp in the 19th century
Etymology
Origin of wrapper
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; see origin at wrap, -er 1
Explanation
A wrapper is any kind of loose cover that encloses something that's for sale. The brightly colored paper that covers your candy bar is a wrapper. If you wrap something in foil or plastic to sell it, you've made a wrapper. Many wrappers are factory-made and sealed, like the wrapper on your ice cream bar, while others protect your fast-food burger or deli sandwich. In some places, people call a dressing gown or robe a wrapper too. No matter how you use the word, a wrapper wraps something. Its earliest use, in the 15th century, was as "a piece of fine cloth used to wrap bread."
Example Sentences
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Worse, it’s a Kit-Kat advert where Chance the Rapper appears on a Kit-Kat wrapper as a character named Chance the Wrapper.
From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2016
For a simple solution, send the trash to TerraCycle’s Candy Wrapper Brigade.
From Forbes • Oct. 22, 2012
Sewed in Coloured Wrapper, price 1s.Songs for Sailors.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey
Wrapper 0 1 0 Cloth 0 1 6 Office of the Holy Ghost under the Gospel.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)
The Old Gray Wrapper Habit How many times has one heard some one say: "I won't dress for dinner—no one is coming in."
From Etiquette by Post, Emily
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