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单词 bookplate
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Definition of bookplate in English:

bookplate

noun ˈbʊkpleɪtˈbʊkˌpleɪt
  • A decorative label stuck in the front of a book, bearing the name of the book's owner.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Attached to the back of the canvas was a bookplate (now removed but remaining with the painting) that is printed with the family arms.
    • The mayor then presented them with copies of the books, complete with a Big Read bookplate.
    • She also collected bookplates and the woodblocks and metal plates from which they were printed.
    • The discovery of royal bookplates and fragments of artefacts already 1500 years old also hints at the king's ‘antiquarian interests’.
    • Later, a friend who signed 3,500 bookplates for a limited-edition work on Ali told him he couldn't sign more than 500 bookplates at a time.
    • Hence, the importance of the much maligned bookplates occasionally found on books which serve to give us at least some information on previous owners.
    • We'd been keeping the bookplates in an unoccupied corner in a reasonably neat pile.
    • He glued a special bookplate in each of the volumes as a memorial to his father.
    • I still have a Puffin Club bookplate stuck inside the cover of this book.
    • The front cover sports a bookplate from 1900 of Nietzsche wearing a crown of thorns, the back cover one of him naked, with remarkable musculature, posing on an Alp.
    • Numerous examples of her lively bookplates and covers are reproduced in full colour.
    • Detectives also found bookplates and yellowing pages that had contained library stamps.
    • The Chinese painters were meticulous copyists of the bookplates, drawings, or watercolors of arms provided them.
    • It wasn't hard for me to learn their language; I had learned quite a few now-dead languages from bookplates, and their language was not unlike one of them.
    • The society's library received a personally inscribed copy of The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany, containing Tiffany's own engraved bookplate.
    • The Chinese proved remarkably adept at reproducing the armorial designs, copying painted or printed patterns such as bookplates sent from Europe and America.
 
 

Definition of bookplate in US English:

bookplate

nounˈbo͝okˌplātˈbʊkˌpleɪt
  • A decorative label stuck in the front of a book, bearing the name of the book's owner.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She also collected bookplates and the woodblocks and metal plates from which they were printed.
    • Numerous examples of her lively bookplates and covers are reproduced in full colour.
    • Attached to the back of the canvas was a bookplate (now removed but remaining with the painting) that is printed with the family arms.
    • I still have a Puffin Club bookplate stuck inside the cover of this book.
    • Detectives also found bookplates and yellowing pages that had contained library stamps.
    • Later, a friend who signed 3,500 bookplates for a limited-edition work on Ali told him he couldn't sign more than 500 bookplates at a time.
    • The Chinese proved remarkably adept at reproducing the armorial designs, copying painted or printed patterns such as bookplates sent from Europe and America.
    • It wasn't hard for me to learn their language; I had learned quite a few now-dead languages from bookplates, and their language was not unlike one of them.
    • We'd been keeping the bookplates in an unoccupied corner in a reasonably neat pile.
    • The mayor then presented them with copies of the books, complete with a Big Read bookplate.
    • The society's library received a personally inscribed copy of The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany, containing Tiffany's own engraved bookplate.
    • Hence, the importance of the much maligned bookplates occasionally found on books which serve to give us at least some information on previous owners.
    • The Chinese painters were meticulous copyists of the bookplates, drawings, or watercolors of arms provided them.
    • The discovery of royal bookplates and fragments of artefacts already 1500 years old also hints at the king's ‘antiquarian interests’.
    • The front cover sports a bookplate from 1900 of Nietzsche wearing a crown of thorns, the back cover one of him naked, with remarkable musculature, posing on an Alp.
    • He glued a special bookplate in each of the volumes as a memorial to his father.
 
 
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