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
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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
Wrapper by wrapper he undid, cerement on cerement, till both Leonora and I wondered when he would stop.
From He by Pollock, Walter Herries
Wrapper after wrapper was now taken from the lame foot, till Dr. Port began to scowl.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
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)
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