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bookcloth

bookcloth

9.5
A cloth used to cover and protect books
  • noun
  • /ˈbʊkˌklɔθ/
  • Specialized
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  • The rare edition was bound in a beautiful red bookcloth.

Examples

  • She carefully selected a navy bookcloth for the custom journal.

  • Restoring old books sometimes requires replacing the original bookcloth to maintain their appearance.

  • The cover is made of bookcloth.

  • I prefer bookcloths over leather for my journals.

  • She carefully selected a navy bookcloth for the custom journal.

  • Restoring old books sometimes requires replacing the original bookcloth to maintain their appearance.

  • The rare edition was bound in a beautiful red bookcloth.

Synonyms

book cloth
vsbookcloth
5.0

A strong cloth that covers books, holds their pages together and protects them

has identical meaning but is written as a single fused word

Surface Forms

bookcloth singular
bookcloths plural

Morphology

bookcloth = book + cloth (transparent) = book + cloth

The compound literally denotes a type of cloth used for covering books and is directly inferable from 'book' + 'cloth'.

Etymology

The word bookcloth is simply the two words book and cloth, so it literally means 'fabric' for a book. That's why bookcloth is the woven material used to cover and protect the outside of a book.