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
Under the banner of privacy, Internet anonymity has become the ultimate plain brown wrapper.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet it is still tasteful enough to go through the mail without a plain brown wrapper.
From Time Magazine Archive
