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Red book
Definitions
- 1 The official technical standard for audio CDs.
"One company claimed to have the rights to putting hidden tracks in that position, but it's not permitted by the Red Book standard, and many plants will not press CDs with a hidden track in the pregap."
- 1 A book, often bound with a red cover, or online equivalent, that is an official, or canonical, collection of data, regulations, or writings.
"All the chauntry preestis whos composicions are enrolled in the rede boke. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1479, ed. 1870, p. 419, cited after OED)"
- 2 A book supposedly belonging to the devil and containing the signatures of those in league with him.
"Her confession to Mr. Langley of Sarum, that she lived with D. Lamb and learnt the art of raising Spirits from him, which she also confessed to Edmond Bower to whom also she acknowledged her skill of curing diseases by Charms and Spels, that she could discover stollen goods, and shew any one the thief in a Glass; and being asked by him for the Red Book half wrote over with blood, being a Catalogue of those that had sealed to the Devil; she denyed not the knowlege of the book, but said that it was with one in Hampshire."
Etymology
red + book as a fixed title for various official books from the 15th century, especially the Red Book of the Exchequer, a manuscript volume of the 13th century (OED).
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