wrapping
/ˈɹæp.ɪŋ/ noun B1- The material in which something is wrapped.
- The breaking of a section of text into lines so that it will fit into the available width of a display area. · See also: autowrap, backwrap, line break, word wrap, and wraparound
Plural wrappings
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Some of the birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, “I really must be getting home; the night-air doesn’t suit my throat!” and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to its children, “Come away, my dears!
So saying, Haydée arose, and wrapping herself in her burnouse of white cashmere embroidered with pearls and coral, she hastily quitted the box at the moment when the curtain was rising upon the fourth act.
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