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bookshelved en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From bookshelf + -ed, with -f changed to -v- as in the plural bookshelves.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having a bookshelf or bookshelves.
    • She reloaded by moonlight, gathered the tripod, and backed across the street, scouting the library for a good angle. She found one and set up. The white clapboard siding was black-banded in the overhead moonlight; the windows showed bookshelved walls lighted faintly from within. 1972, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives, New York, N.Y.: Random House, Inc., →ISBN, page 52:
    • Add an appealing small house — but bigger than it looks — with its bookshelved study, sunny panelled living room, chair-railed dining room, and large eat-in country kitchen. 1967 November 9, K[arl] M. Light Real Estate, “Tiger’s Lair!”, in Town Topics, Princeton, N.J., →OCLC, page 21, column 5:

bookshelved en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of bookshelve
    form of bookshelve