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spiralbound en · ADJ

Etymology

From spiral + bound.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a book) Bound with coil binding.
    • For over a decade, I happily stirred my way through pudding recipes from the most tried-and-true grandmotherly sources I could find: Fannie Farmer and “Joy of Cooking,” Better Homes and Gardens magazine, and spiralbound Junior League cookbooks. 2008 April 23, Melissa Clark, “You Call That Pudding, Grandma?”, in New York Times:
    • Designed for quick, easy point-of-care reference, this spiralbound pocket guide covers every aspect of pediatric nursing in a concise format that is packed with bulleted facts, tables, and illustrations. 2006, Pediatric Nursing, →ISBN:
    • Their book is a handsome physical production, reliably spiralbound and printed on sturdy stock, with an especially clever foldout map of Illinois counties. 1988 July 29, James Krohe Jr., “Reading: Nature in a Sorry State”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016: