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单词 front matter
释义

front matter

noun

: matter preceding the main text of a book

Example Sentences

The conventions of the book are explained in the front matter.
Recent Examples on the Web Literary superstars such as Taylor have been eager to take on the role of both guide and medium, providing front matter that links the past with the present by placing classic texts in a contemporary context. Je Banach, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022 Paging through this front matter feels like waiting for a haunted carnival ride to start, only to be wrong-footed. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2019 Some of Richard McGuire’s sequences are taxonomies: bird cages, hats, ice, or the collection of wire shapes that decorates the front matter of this book. The New York Review of Books, 13 Oct. 2016

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1909, in the meaning defined above

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