单词 | half-bound |
释义 | ˈhalf-boundadj. Of a book: Having a leather back and corners, with cloth or paper sides: cf. half-binding n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > [adjective] full-bound1705 super-extra1774 half-bound1775 Etruscan1792 antique1794 Russia-bound1808 vellum-bound1836 vellum-covered1836 quarter-bound1842 cloth-bound1860 limp1863 cottage1874 monastic1880 parchment-bound1881 yapped1882 all along1888 Grolieresque1889 Maioli1890 perfect1890 treed calf1892 Lyonnais1893 hardback1894 dos-à-dos1952 perfect bound1960 spiral-bound1961 spiral1977 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals i. ii, They were half-bound volumes, with marble covers! 1863 Bookseller's Catal. Half bound morocco. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 424 If the book is ‘half-bound’, instead of ‘whole-bound’, the leather is limited to a strip at the back and a short distance from the back to each side, and to the corners. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2014). > as lemmashalf-bound a. transitive. To fasten together the sheets of (a book), and put it into a stiff cover. Technically ‘binding’ is covering with leather, vellum, or other durable material; though in ordinary language we say ‘bound in cloth.’ A book is half-bound when it has a leather back, and the sides covered with cloth or paper. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bind [verb (transitive)] bind?a1400 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 3317 The sexte had a sawtere semliche bowndene. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xiiiv I haue them [my books] in great reuerence..Full goodly bounde in pleasaunt couerture. 1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 37 That no Byble should be bounde without the Apocripha. 1637 Decree Starre-Chamber conc. Printing vii. sig. C4 No person..shall bind, stitch, or put to sale, any such booke. 1716 A. Pope Further Acct. E. Curll 9 He always binds in Sheep. 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend ii. 49 A huge tome, bound In brass and wild-boar's hide. half-bound half-bound adj. having the back only, or back and corners, of leather, the rest of the binding being cloth or paper. Also extracted from boundadj.2< adj.1775 as lemmas |
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