wrappered en · ADJ
Etymology
From wrapper + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having a wrapper.
To girls in convent school, it was the mark of a subversive or a pervert to have a book covered in brown wrapper. […] On the jeepney rides forbidden to the girls, a man in the front seat might have an opened, brown-wrappered book on his lap while he watched the ascent of every girl or woman onto the jeep.
1997, Gina Apostol, Bibliolepsy, University of the Philippines Press, →ISBN, page 17: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 conference with a dark-wrappered figure, her blue-checked apron wound muff fashion about her hands.
1916, Fannie Hurst, “Rolling Stock”, in Every Soul Hath Its Song, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers […], page 88: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:ENGLISH booksellers and English readers do not as a rule like wrappered books.
1921, The London Mercury, page 520: