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book-token en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of book token.
    alt of book token
    • I don't remember book-tokens — perhaps they hadn't been invented — and occasionally there were duplicate volumes. 1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels:
    • Perhaps they should be paid in something else: book-tokens, lecture coupons, night-class dockets, culture vouchers. 2010, Martin Amis, The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000, →ISBN:
    • Bath salts seemed ordinary, a record or book-token impersonal, a pot-plant unimaginative. 2015, Margaret Yorke, No Fury, →ISBN:

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