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bookhoard

noun

Etymology

Calque of Old English bōchord (“library, collection of books”), equivalent to book + hoard.

  1. derived from *hurdi✻ — “wickerwork, braiding of branches, hurdle, scaffolding, military company”
  2. derived from *hurd✻
  3. derived from horde
  4. derived from hourd
  5. derived from hurde
  6. inherited from hord
  7. compounded as bookhoard — “book + hoard”

Definitions

  1. collection of books, library

    • BOC HORDE. Sax. [quasi bookhoard.] / A place where books, writing or evidences were kept.
    • BOCHORD is, as it were, bookhoard, or a hoard for books, that is, a place where books, writings or evidences are kept.
    • From the excessively rare double-folio engraving "Cornu Aurei Typus", an impression of which is in my own bookhoard; another is in the Danish National Library.

The neighborhood

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