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bookplate

noun

Etymology

From book + plate.

  1. derived from πλατύς
  2. derived from *plattus✻
  3. derived from plata
  4. derived from plate
  5. inherited from plate
  6. compounded as bookplate — “book + plate”

Definitions

  1. A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside…

    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. To affix a bookplate to (a book).

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA