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Bookplate
noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted wordnet
Verb
- 1 To affix a bookplate to (a book). transitive
Etymology
Etymology 1
From book + plate.
Etymology 2
From book + plate.
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