| 单词 | in cloth boards |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin cloth boards 4. Bookbinding. Rectangular pieces of strong pasteboard used for the covers of books. A book in boards has these only covered with paper; if they are covered with cloth it is in cloth boards; if with leather, parchment, or the like, the book is bound. Formerly (still occasionally) the boards were of thin wood, as ‘an ancient tome in oaken boards’. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover > boards pasteboard1511 board1533 cloth-board1832 end-boardc1860 1533 T. More Apol. iv, in Wks. 850/2 I wil be bounden to eate it, though the booke be bounden in boardes. 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII xv. §1 Printed bookes..bounde in bourdes, some in lether, and some in parchement. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) (colophon) f. xxxvii*v [To] sell this present booke..bounde in paste or in boordes. 1790 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) I. 233 The bookseller..had not one in boards. 1832 Athenæum No. 241. 375 Published in a neat pocket volume, cloth boards. 1852 Househ. Words 6 290 A little drab volume in boards. 1883 Fortn. Rev. Apr. 495 In the case of really good books, ‘boards’ should always be regarded as temporary inadequate coverings. < as lemmas |
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