单词 | viewbook |
释义 | viewbookn.ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book book of account1444 accounts book1461 counting-book15.. accounting booka1555 account book1590 count-book1607 codicila1704 viewbook1718 bill-book1774 stock book1835 account ledger1879 1718 T. Jett Rep. 18 Feb. in Rep. Lords Comm. Publick Rec. (1719) 84 There are..some few Books of Particulars of Estates and Rents..as also View Books of the Ministers, and Receivers General Accompts. 1824 7th Rep. Commissioners Inq. Revenue Ireland 136 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 100) XI. 1 At the end of every day's collecting..the collector prepares an account called a Petty..which is..entered in a book called the View Book. 1870 1st Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS App. 68/1 in Parl. Papers (C. 55) XXXIX. 543 A thin paper folio volume, called ‘View Book, No. II.,’ containing a rough account of the expenditure of the College. 2. A book consisting wholly or mainly of photographs or illustrations of scenic views. Now historical. ΚΠ 1890 Scotsman 27 Aug. 1/1 (advt.) See our stock of photographs, medallions, opalines, view books. 1905 Geyer's Stationer 2 Nov. 20/1 W. G. McFarlane..publisher of picture post cards and souvenir view books, has a combined view book and picture post card proposition that should prove very attractive. 1985 J. N. Green Mathew Carey 24 In 1820 Carey published the first American color-plate view book, Joshua Shaw's magnificent Picturesque Views of American Scenery. 2013 H. Gottfried Landscape Amer. Guides & View Bks. i. 28 View books came into their own as souvenirs after 1870. 3. U.S. A brochure advertising the facilities or activities of a school, college, or university. ΚΠ 1917 Kansas City (Missouri) Times 2 July 6/4 (advt.) An Ideal Junior College for Women. Send for catalog and viewbook. 1946 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 46 546/3 To express the individuality of a particular school, a viewbook or pamphlet can be employed to advantage. 1994 Faith Today Jan. 74/3 (advt.) For a free viewbook and/or information about our High School, Bible College, or Biblical Seminary phone toll free. 2011 A. Ferguson Crazy U 2 More than a hundred..viewbooks had been stuffed in the mailbox, glowing with color photos of cheerful undergraduates lounging on sunlit knolls. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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