Casing

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late Middle English: from Old French casse, chasse (modern caisse ‘trunk, chest’, châsse ‘reliquary, frame’), from Latin capsa, related to capere ‘to hold’.

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casing (n.)

1570s, "action of fitting with a case," verbal noun from case (v.). Meaning "a covering, an enclosure" is from 1839.