wrappered
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "ENGLISH booksellers and English readers do not as a rule like wrappered books."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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 […]"
Etymology
From wrapper + -ed.