wrappage (rapaj)

[ It seems somehow the very central e ence of us, Song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship, iii. Hence was the need, on either side, of a lie To serve as decent wrappage . Browning , Ring and Book, iv. 528, To-morrow this sheet shall be the wrappage to a bar of soap, or the platter for a beggar's broken victuals. Lowell , Biglow Papers, 1st ser., vi., note.