[1765–75]This word is first recorded in the period 1765–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: backwash, bonus, civilization, mocha, statement
Examples of 'half-bound' in a sentence
half-bound
The leather or material covering the corners of half-bound books.
Joseph E. Zaensdorf The Art of Bookbinding (1890). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)