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noun

Wrapper n.

One who, or that which, wraps.

That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering.

Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's wrapper.

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Etymology of 'Wrapper'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wrapper" Quotes from Famous Books

... came in hesitatingly. She wore a black wrapper, and her face, with her hair drawn back for the night, looked tight ...

— The Amazing Interlude • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... grandeur. Everything to-day is done to avoid unnecessary evidence of the change that has taken place. In case of a very small funeral the person who has passed away is sometimes left lying in bed in night clothes, or on a sofa in a wrapper, with flowers, but no set pieces, about the room, so that an invalid or other sensitive bereft one may say farewell without ever seeing the all too definite finality of a coffin. In any event the last attentions are paid in accordance with the ...

— Etiquette • Emily Post

... o'clock. Miss Van Tuyn went to her bedroom. She had a maid with her, but she did not ring for the woman. Instead she shut her door, and began to "do" things for herself. She began by taking off her gown and putting on a loose wrapper. Then she sat down before the dressing-table and changed the way in which her corn-coloured hair was done, making it sit much closer to the head than before, and look much less striking and conspicuous. The new way of doing her hair changed her appearance considerably, ...

— December Love • Robert Hichens

... to my room that night as I was putting my hot-water bottle to bed, in a baby-blue silk wrapper with a band of fur around the low neck—Miss Summers, of course, not ...

— Where There's A Will • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... Ben drew from this wrapper was worn at the folds, and required careful handling. Graciella, moved by curiosity, had come down from her throne to a seat beside Ben upon the porch. She had never had any faith in the mythical gold of old Ralph ...

— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt

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