Bookplate

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.

    "By the bed there was a bookcase with old French novels, left-behind Frederick Forsyths, odd leather-bound volumes of history and memoirs with the coroneted Kessler bookplate."

  2. 2
    a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To affix a bookplate to (a book). transitive

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Example

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"This is my book. Do you see the bookplate here?"

Etymology

From book + plate.

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