dust jacket
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- noun
- /dʌst ˈdʒækɪt/
- Many collectors prefer books with their original dust jackets in excellent condition.
- books with dust jackets
- retain dust jackets
- discard dust jackets
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Examples
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At McWhorter Library, we plan to implement a system to retain dust jackets for all cloth-bound books that enter our collection.
Academic text (2015) -
Evita's photograph appears on the front of the dust jacket, and she figures prominently in a chapter entitled "Power Hungry Women."
Academic text (2004) -
And I think, I think the dust jacket is inside the book.
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My copy of this text has a dust jacket, which is really cool.
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Did you see the photo for the dust jacket?
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First edition of White Fang, in the original dust jacket.
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She'd taken off the original dust jackets and replaced them with others.
Fiction book (1998) -
Early dust jackets were plain affairs, often showing only the title and perhaps the author's name.
Academic text (2015) -
Future studies to explore the effect of dust jackets on circulation may wish to sample across all disciplines.
Academic text (2015) -
In many academic libraries, the dust jackets of cloth-bound books are discarded.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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3.9
An outer covering that protects or decorates objects like bullets
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2.7
A removable paper cover for a book with pictures and short text
A paper cover on a book that protects it and shows the title and author
A removable paper cover that protects a book and often has pictures or text
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is compositionally a modifier 'dust' + head 'jacket' indicating a jacket related to dust—i.e., a protective cover that keeps dust off (specifically for a book). This is a literal, predictable modifier–head combination, so a B1 learner who knows both words can reasonably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Dust jacket comes from the simple image of a paper jacket that keeps dust off a book and protects it. So, it now means 'a removable paper cover that protects the book and shows pictures or information about it'.