plain brown wrapper
Example Sentences
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Encountering pulp was a family affair, undertaken together, in plain view, not hidden in a plain brown wrapper as Nemec’s novels surely would have been.
From Time • Apr. 9, 2015
Add an exclamation point to that line, and you’ve got what sounds like a teaser from an ad for a 1950s B movie or the sort of paperback once read under a plain brown wrapper.
From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2011
“He gave me the manuscript in a plain brown wrapper, and I was sworn to secrecy,” he said.
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2010
Yet it is still tasteful enough to go through the mail without a plain brown wrapper.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under the banner of privacy, Internet anonymity has become the ultimate plain brown wrapper.
From Time Magazine Archive
