bookplate en · NOUN
Etymology
From book + plate.
Meanings
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A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.
By the bed there was a bookcase with old French novels, left-behind Frederick Forsyths, odd leather-bound volumes of history and memoirs with the coroneted Kessler bookplate.
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bookplates | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (15)
sv exlibris (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership) · es ex libris (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership) · eo ekslibriso (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership) · fr ex-libris (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership) · fr ex libris (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership) · cmn 藏書票 /藏书票 (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership) · fi exlibris (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership) · et eksliibris (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership) · lt ekslibrisas (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership) · pl ekslibris (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership) · it ex libris (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership) · bg екслибрис (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership) · sv exlibrismärke (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership) · pt ex-libris (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership) · de Exlibris (piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership)