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wrapper

noun The descriptions of some objects carry most of their impact in text written on them; their wrapper is the part of their description not in the impact text. The best example of this is the tombstones in the Graveyard, which tend to have vacuous wrappers around more exotic text. For example, consider the description: 'Before you is a tombstone, bearing the words: "Here lies <wiz name>, fountain of all knowledge."'. For this, the 'Before you is a tombstone, bearing the words:' is the wrapper and the rest is the text (but, since it's on a tombstone in this example, it can also be referred to as the description's (and <wiz name>'s) epitaph or epiphet).