scrapianan.
rare.
With plural agreement. A collection of literary scraps or ‘scrapings’.
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analects1641
delectus1700
scrapiana1792
scrap-book1825
chrestomathy1832
1792 (title) Scrapeana. Fugitive Miscellany.
1811 C. Jackson Let. 27 May in Lady Jackson Bath Archives (1873) I. 256 I shall finish the last volume of scrapiana I began here.
1818 (title) Scrapiana: or elegant extracts of wit: being a complete collection of humorous pieces in prose and in verse.
1958 E. Blunden War Poets 1914–18 27 That denomination ‘Eye-Witness’, used in the first stage of the war to cover official scrapiana from the observation posts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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