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softbacked en · ADJ

Etymology

From soft + backed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a book) Having a flexible binding of card or similar; softback.
    • He opened a blue softbacked book, and as I looked at the page he ran a finger down it […] 1997, Eamon Collins, Killing Rage, page 292: