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bookholder en · NOUN

Etymology

From book + holder.

Meanings

1. A support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying.
2. Someone who holds a book.
3. (obsolete) A prompter at a theatre.
   • they are out of their parts, sure: it may be 'tis the book-holder's fault 1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

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