Bookbinding
noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The art, craft or process of binding books. countable, uncountable
- 2 the craft of binding books wordnet
Example
More examples"At my corner window table, I was reading the Esperanto science fiction book La Imperio Ornaks by A. Thorkent. My parents bought me the book from the Esperanto Museum in Vienna, which they visited years ago. I also carried with me a French-Esperanto mini dictionary from Paris, 1947, from Internet shopping. Lately, I've been researching Japanese "hako-chitsu" bookbinding, which I first encountered in the Asian Library of UBC, my university."
Etymology
From book + binding.
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