Citations:wrap

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English citations of wrap

Noun[edit]

  • 1934 — Anon., All About Shanghai: A standard Guidebook, The University Press, Shanghai. 1983 edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, →ISBN. p. 95;
    The brocades are particularly suitable for evening wraps and negligees.
  • 1983, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
    I saw a F→M who had Laub's "wrap" in which the labia minora is wrapped around the clit, silicone balls put in the labia majora, which is sewed together leaving the vagina a bit open.

Verb[edit]

    • 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 4, Abbot Hugo
      Old Dominus Hugo sat inaccessible in this way, far in the interior, wrapt in his warm flannels and delusions; inaccessible to all voice of Fact
    • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
      worn faces that look deaf and blind
      Like tragic masks of stone. With weary tread,
      Each wrapt in his own doom, they wander, wander,