Definition of "wrappings" []

• Plural form of wrapping. (noun)
• Wrapping material collectively (noun)

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• "The place stinks of Jamaican marijuana, the cash register area smells of fish, and the wastebasket is full of discarded wrappings from a first aid kit."
• "Tied or trussed like fowls or pigs, they were tumbled on the hard - packed earthen floor, beneath which, shallowly buried, lay the remains of ancient chiefs, while, overhead, in wrappings of grass mats, swung all that was left of several of Bashti's immediate predecessors, his father latest among them and so swinging for two full generations."
• "Tehei and Bihaura speeded their parting guests -- captive chickens, fishes dressed and swathed in wrappings of green leaves, great golden bunches of bananas, leafy baskets spilling over with oranges and limes, alligator pears (the butter-fruit, also called the avoca), huge baskets of yams, bunches of taro and cocoanuts, and last of all, large branches and trunks of trees -- firewood for the"