commonplace book
noun
: a book of memorabilia
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web After his wife left him in 1642, John Milton processed it in his commonplace book, chronicling a reading binge about bad marriages. 
New York Times, 22 Mar. 2022 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 See More
New York Times, 22 Mar. 2022 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1572, in the meaning defined above