| 单词 | half-bound | 
| 释义 | ˈhalf-boundadj.  Of a book: Having a leather back and corners, with cloth or paper sides: cf. half-binding n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > 			[adjective]		 full-bound1705 super-extra1774 half-bound1775 Etruscan1792 antique1794 Russia-bound1808 vellum-bound1836 vellum-covered1836 quarter-bound1842 cloth-bound1860 limp1863 cottage1874 monastic1880 parchment-bound1881 yapped1882 all along1888 Grolieresque1889 Maioli1890 perfect1890 treed calf1892 Lyonnais1893 hardback1894 dos-à-dos1952 perfect bound1960 spiral-bound1961 spiral1977 1775    R. B. Sheridan Rivals  i. ii,  				They were half-bound volumes, with marble covers! 1863    Bookseller's Catal.  				Half bound morocco. 1875    R. Hunt  & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts 		(ed. 7)	 I. 424  				If the book is ‘half-bound’, instead of ‘whole-bound’, the leather is limited to a strip at the back and a short distance from the back to each side, and to the corners. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2014). > as lemmashalf-bound  a.  transitive. To fasten together the sheets of (a book), and put it into a stiff cover. Technically ‘binding’ is covering with leather, vellum, or other durable material; though in ordinary language we say ‘bound in cloth.’ A book is  half-bound when it has a leather back, and the sides covered with cloth or paper. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bind			[verb (transitive)]		 bind?a1400 ?a1400    Morte Arth. 3317  				The sexte had a sawtere semliche bowndene. 1509    A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys 		(Pynson)	 f. xiiiv  				I haue them [my books] in great reuerence..Full goodly bounde in pleasaunt couerture. 1588    ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 37  				That no Byble should be bounde without the Apocripha. 1637    Decree Starre-Chamber conc. Printing vii. sig. C4  				No person..shall bind, stitch, or put to sale, any such booke. 1716    A. Pope Further Acct. E. Curll 9  				He always binds in Sheep. 1851    H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend  ii. 49  				A huge tome, bound In brass and wild-boar's hide. half-boundhalf-bound adj. having the back only, or back and corners, of leather, the rest of the binding being cloth or paper. Also extracted from boundadj.2 < as lemmas | 
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