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wrappered

wrappered adjective: having a wrapper.

Adjective

wrappered (not comparable)

  1. Having a wrapper.
    • 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...1916, Fannie Hurst, “Rolling Stock”, in Every Soul Hath Its Song, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers […], page 88
    • ENGLISH booksellers and English readers do not as a rule like wrappered books.1921, The London Mercury, page 520

Examples of wrappered in a sentence

  • 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.1926, Thomas Bird Mosher, The Mosher Books: A List of Belles Lettres Issued in Limited Editions, page 12:
  • 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 […]2010, David Alan Richards, Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliography, Oak Knoll Press, →ISBN, page 2:

Origin of wrappered

From wrapper + -ed.

Questions about wrappered

What does wrappered mean?
Wrappered means having a wrapper.
How do you use wrappered in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is wrappered?
Wrappered is an adjective.

Words near wrappered in the dictionary

  1. wrapped one's mind around
  2. wrapped up
  3. wrappeds
  4. wrapper
  5. wrapper classes
  6. wrappered
  7. wrapperless
  8. wrappers
  9. wrappest
  10. wrappeth
  11. wrapping

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