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Definition of Envelopes
1. envelope [n] - See also: envelope
Lexicographical Neighbors of Envelopes
Literary usage of Envelopes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1877)
"It contains cards and envelopes, pack and pack, stamped in color very ...
They have many elegant designs of wedding envelopes, especially a new one just out ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"The plea in the present case, however, does allege fraud in the procurement of
the order for the envelopes, by the untrue representations made to the ..."
3. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Great Exhibition, Robert Ellis (1851)
"This machine works at the rate of 2700 envelopes per hour, and although superseding
... Although the fashion of using envelopes was common in France, ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1865)
"Several large firms in London and elsewhere can make envelopes more cheaply than
the government, and can vary the size, shape, colour, and quality to an ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1862)
"There has been but slight variation in the number of stamped envelopes ...
The greater cheapness of government envelopes as compared with those of the trade ..."
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