单词 | book hoard |
释义 | book hoardn. A repository for books or documents, a library (now historical); (in later use also) a collection of books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] book hoardOE book box1689 OE Harley Gloss. (1966) 29 Bibliotheca uel librorum repositio, bochord uel fodder. OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 126 Bibliotheca, boochord uel Armarium uel Archiuum. 1849 Western Lit. Messenger June 150/2 The genuine study or book hoard (if I may use one of those expressive Anglo-Saxon words which we have lost, i.e. Boc-hord) always has a certain slip shod reality about it. 1873 Notes & Queries 1 Nov. 347/1 Possibly it [sc. a manuscript] perisht in the unhappy fire in that bookhoard a few years later. 1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 223/2 Some of the book-hoards of previous generations could have spared the equivalent of the Locker collection without seeming noticeably the poorer. 2010 M. Lackey One Good Knight 296 The ‘library’, which was nothing more than the big, dry room—probably a former barracks room—where he kept his book hoard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.OE |
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