Definition of "wrappage" [wrap•page]

• The act of wrapping. (noun)
• That which wraps; an envelope or covering. (noun)

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• "So, when you have determined whose the style is which enfolds a thought, whose the thought is, is as little worth dispute as, after its wrappage of corn has been shelled off, the cob's ownership is worth a quarrel."
• "But on shore, after having taken off the wrappage, they are, and behave like, real human beings ...."
• "Just the pampered young minion of any Tuscan court, a precocious wrappage of wit, good manners, and sensibility, he looked what he spoke, the exquisite Florentine, to these broad-vowelled Venetian lasses; did not smile, but seemed never out of temper; and was certainly not timid."