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Answer for the clue "Dirigible's skin ", 8 letters:
envelope

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Word definitions for envelope in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing. Etymology 2 vb. (context nonstandard English) (alternative spelling of envelop English)

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
An envelope is a common packaging item, usually made of thin flat material. It is designed to contain a flat object, such as a letter or card . Traditional envelopes are made from sheets of paper cut to one of three shapes: a rhombus , a short-arm cross, ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a sealed envelope ▪ Jenkins handed Talbot a sealed envelope. stamped addressed envelope stamped, self-addressed envelope (= with your address on it so it can be sent back to you ) ▪ Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope ...

Usage examples of envelope.

Conal now sat on its sculpted door, and absently traced a slender finger along an air intake, glowering at the envelope.

No angle is present as the ending ridge does not abut upon the curving ridge which envelopes it.

DRMO, then told him to park out front and look for an envelope on the front door of the admin building.

The spiky handwriting on the airmail envelope from London was obviously hers, and Pug tore it open with more eagerness than he wanted to feel.

She stared at a slim blue airmail envelope with a Zimbabwean postmark.

The questionnaire and an information sheet about the album were printed up on different-coloured paper stock and record-mailing envelopes were delivered to Cavendish Avenue.

When she was attired in a grey alpaca dress with a cape to match, a blue straw bonnet resting on her brown hair, and a pair of black buttoned boots on her feet, she went to the top drawer of the chest and took out the long envelope and looked at it.

The envelope had his name written on the front, all right, but the return address was for Amour Magique.

Friedman chose to do so in anagram cipher, the solution to which he sealed in a time-stamped envelope, inviting readers to try and unravel it.

What a preposterous glut of paper and ink he has amassed, loose leaves and envelopes and journals with spines and notebooks sewn with string, all neatly filled with his blockish, inelegant handwriting, all annotated with symbols in his own private code, signifying such things as further study needed or but is this really true?

Thus, one layer of the arachnoid envelopes the brain and spinal cord, and the other lines the dura mater.

But while he basked in his new happiness I travelled in my close stuffy envelope to Dulminster, and after having been tossed in and out of bags, shuffled, stamped, thumped, tied up, and generally shaken about, I arrived one morning at Dulminster Archdeaconry, and was laid on the breakfast table among other appetising things to greet Mrs.

She was about to give up in defeat, go downstairs and tell the police that Julia must have taken the head shots with her when she went to her audition, when she saw the large manila envelope peeking out from under the shaft of the guitar.

He pulls the legal envelope from his jacket pocket and leaves it on the bar before him, stares at it-and clutches, again, the beeper on his belt.

Now as the blubber envelopes the whale precisely as the rind does an orange, so is it stripped off from the body precisely as an orange is sometimes stripped by spiralizing it.