OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 7682

envelope

/ˈɛnvələʊp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
envelop • sobre • sobrescripto (disused) • sobrescrito
A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sea…
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