| 单词 | book clasp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbook clasp book clasp n. a (metal) clasp fitted to the covers of a book in order to keep it closed when not being read. ΚΠ 1485 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 187 Evere persone..which makes daggar chapes, purse knoppes, bulyons, book claspes, dawkes, dog colers..belonging to the said craft. 1518 in Trans. Shropshire Archaeol. Soc. (1904) 4 102 It' for mendyng the booke claspe, ijd. 1773 A. Wood & J. Peshall Antient & Present State City of Oxf. 45 A Pair of Book Clasps of Silver. 1845 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 16 Jan. 4/2 The service had begun.., the trampling and jostling of the crowd, and the tinkling of book-clasps had ceased. 1970 K. Hoffman Year 1200 I. 80/2 The..floral ornament on a book clasp of the late twelfth century. 2011 E. Buringh Medieval MS Production vi. 355 Books were an important commodity in thirteenth-century Paris, as only a university town could support a guild solely making book clasps. < as lemmas |
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