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envelope

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1. envelope - Noun

2. envelope - Verb

Meaning

Alt. of Envelop

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Virginia Woolf

And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you. Edwin Lefèvre

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. Henry James

No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives. For example, my first instinct when I receive an envelope full of white powder...is to snort it! I just won't do that this time! Margaret Cho

I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive. Grace Slick

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. Shana Alexander

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