bookplate

[ book-pleyt ]

/ ˈbʊkˌpleɪt /

noun

a label bearing the owner's name and often a design, coat of arms, or the like, for pasting on the front end paper of a book.

Origin of bookplate

First recorded in 1785–95; book + plate¹

Words nearby bookplate

Book of Odes, book of original entry, Book of the Dead, book out, bookpaper, bookplate, bookrack, bookrest, book review, book scorpion, bookseller

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Example sentences from the Web for bookplate

If there be a bookplate, soak it off, and when dry paste it inside the end cover.
The Book-Hunter at Home|P. B. M. Allan
The allusion was to Cooper's bookplate, a red serpent about a golden staff.
The Patient Observer|Simeon Strunsky
Sentiment is seldom in place, but on a bookplate it is peculiarly odious.
In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays|Augustine Birrell
His bookplate (Fig. 739) is one of the earliest Scottish dated plates.
A Complete Guide to Heraldry|Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

He had a bookplate and he had also a coat of arms on his carriage-door.
Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14)|Elbert Hubbard

British Dictionary definitions for bookplate

bookplate

/ (ˈbʊkˌpleɪt) /

noun

a label bearing the owner's name and an individual design or coat of arms, pasted into a book

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单词	bookplate
释义	bookplate [ book-pleyt ] / ˈbʊkˌpleɪt / noun a label bearing the owner's name and often a design, coat of arms, or the like, for pasting on the front end paper of a book. Origin of bookplate First recorded in 1785–95; book + plate¹ Words nearby bookplate Book of Odes, book of original entry, Book of the Dead, book out, bookpaper, bookplate, bookrack, bookrest, book review, book scorpion, bookseller Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for bookplate If there be a bookplate, soak it off, and when dry paste it inside the end cover. The Book-Hunter at Home\|P. B. M. Allan The allusion was to Cooper's bookplate, a red serpent about a golden staff. The Patient Observer\|Simeon Strunsky Sentiment is seldom in place, but on a bookplate it is peculiarly odious. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays\|Augustine Birrell His bookplate (Fig. 739) is one of the earliest Scottish dated plates. A Complete Guide to Heraldry\|Arthur Charles Fox-Davies He had a bookplate and he had also a coat of arms on his carriage-door. Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14)\|Elbert Hubbard British Dictionary definitions for bookplate bookplate / (ˈbʊkˌpleɪt) / noun a label bearing the owner's name and an individual design or coat of arms, pasted into a book Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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