Material used to cover or enclose something, like paper around a candy or plastic around food.
From 'wrap' (from Old English 'wrappian') plus '-er' to indicate an object or agent. The word entered modern usage as mass-produced goods became common.
Wrappers are a modern artifact—they only became ubiquitous in the last 150 years with mass production and advertising, yet now most of what we throw away is wrapper, not product.
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