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单词 leaf turner
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leaf turner
leaf turner n. Obsolete (a) humorous a reader of a book; (b) a person who or device which turns the pages of a book; cf. page turner n. at page n.2 Compounds 2.
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1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 212 Where then were all your Leaf-turners?
1782 J. Elphinston in tr. Martial Epigrams Contents p. xxiii/1 On Picens: the leaf-turner.
1835 J. Blakiston Twenty Years in Retirement I. 172 He might be within reach of her charms, vocal and personal—for the contemplation of which latter no position can be better than that of a leaf-turner.
1922 Pop. Mech. Nov. 673/2 This leaf turner is operated by pressure of the fingers of one hand.
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