birthday bookn.
/ˈbəːθdeɪ ˌbʊk/, /ˈbəːθdɪ ˌbʊk/, U.S. /ˈbərθˌdeɪ ˌbʊk/ 1. A book in diary form for recording people's birthdays, often also giving a quotation, interesting fact, etc., for each day of the year. Now chiefly historical.
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society > communication > record > written record > daily record or journal > [noun] > other types of journal
book of remembrance1465
commentary1531
notebook1565
tablebook1582
remembrance booka1627
stam-book1662
memorandum book1683
memorandum paper1710
noctuary1714
workbook1766
memorandum tablet1774
journalet1776
birthday book1806
tickler1808
remembrancer1843
war diary1917
worksheet1925
pillow book1928
memory board1955
Daytimer1960
1806 J. H. Mills Poet. Trifles 67 (heading) Written in the birth-day book at Mrs. Trevor's, Boot Inn, Chester, 1802.
1884 Spectator 12 Jan. 58/1 Mr. Arnold does not describe classes of men sufficiently numerous and various to supply apt quotations for a birthday book.
2007 Your Family Tree July 19/1 Closely allied to diaries are birthday books, which were popular during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.
2. A book suitable for or given as a birthday present.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > book for specific occasion > [noun] > specific
Christmas book1769
lounging-booka1797
lounge-book1800
railway novel1849
birthday book?1859
livre de chevet1883
bed-book1906
pillow book1906
bedside book1920
bedside literature1920
?1859 (title) The boy's birth-day book; a collection of tales, essays, and narratives of adventure.
1956 Daily Mail 2 Nov. 7/2 It looked like the birthday book Mr. Darbey was expecting for his wife.
2001 H. Crossley (title) I am 4: a birthday book.
3. A book compiled to commemorate the birthday of a scholar or other notable person; a Festschrift.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > collection presented to scholar
festschrift1871
birthday book1899
1899 Bot. Gaz. 27 486 It is impossible to discuss in detail the contributions which make up this ‘birthday book’.
1967 Listener 25 May 690/1 Garlands, festschrifts and birthday books tend to be tedious.
2003 R. May & J. Minford (title) A birthday book for Brother Stone: for David Hawkes, at eighty.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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