Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rack or frame for supporting an open book, or for holding a number of books.
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Examples
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As I said, the book had a pretty nice cover that would have looked at home on an airport book-rack.
Archive 2009-08-01 J. Steven York 2009
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As I said, the book had a pretty nice cover that would have looked at home on an airport book-rack.
Dead On Arrival, a Novel Autopsy, or: "The Why Incision" J. Steven York 2009
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"It's quite like having a fairy godmother," she said aloud, as her eye took in a carved book-rack filled with books, and wandered to the pretty tea-table where a tall chocolate pot seemed to proclaim that nothing so harmful as tea should be taken by the girls who might make merry there.
Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick
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Our worn-out sash curtains, nicely laundered, veiled her book-rack.
Stories Worth Rereading Various
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Sybella stood a moment doubting, then she turned to a book-rack and began to look over some loose sheets of music.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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"It's quite like having a fairy godmother," she said aloud, as her eye took in a carved book-rack filled with books, and wandered to the pretty tea-table where a tall chocolate pot seemed to proclaim that nothing so harmful as tea should be taken by the girls who might make merry there.
Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick
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"It's quite like having a fairy godmother," she said aloud, as her eye took in a carved book-rack filled with books, and wandered to the pretty tea-table where a tall chocolate pot seemed to proclaim that nothing so harmful as tea should be taken by the girls who might make merry there.
Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick
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The boys are now engaged in making a desk book-rack (a scroll saw exercise) for every school teacher in Cincinnati.
The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) Scott Nearing 1933
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There can be no doubt that I did so, for I had to move a book-rack to place it.
Sight Unseen Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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I can still see the little sitting-room with its piano, its plenitude of cushions, its book-rack, its Indian corner, its tasteful paper, its pictures, and always and everywhere flowers, flowers.
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