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clipbook en · NOUN

Etymology

From clip + book.

Meanings

  1. A kind of scrapbook for keeping clippings.
    • Kerr's clipbooks then, such as Journey to the Center of the Theater, tend to be made up of more enduring, less ephemeral pieces. Wicker found that his pieces were so time bound that he was unable to collect them into a clipbook […] 1999, Robert L. Root, E.B. White: the emergence of an essayist, page 61:
    • […]clipbooks containing a number of illustrations at a cost of pennies each[…] 1974, Richard S. Hodgson, The Dartnell direct mail and mail order handbook:

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