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forwrap en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English forwrappen, equivalent to for- + wrap.

Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) To wrap up or about; muffle.
   • "Why art thou all forwrapped save thy face? Why livest thou so long in so great age?" 1782, John Bell, Bell's edition:
   • The great tamburlaine, that reigned not so many years hence, a captain no less bloody than valiant, which also subdued so many countries and provinces, being demanded why he so more than tyrannously used his captives, whereunto he answered, forwrapped [deeply suffused] in choler: [...] 1994, Vivien Thomas, William Tydeman, Christopher Marlowe:

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