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softcover

adj

Etymology

From soft + cover.

  1. derived from cooperiō — “to cover completely”
  2. derived from coperire
  3. derived from covrir
  4. inherited from coveren
  5. compounded as softcover — “soft + cover”

Definitions

  1. Having covers made of paper or thin cardboard

    Having covers made of paper or thin cardboard; paperback.

    • It gives more emphasis to the literary novels and short-story collections reviewed so often in our pages (and sometimes published only in softcover).

  2. A book having such covers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for softcover. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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