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bookbindery
[ book-bahyn-duh-ree ]
bookbindery
/ ˈbʊkˌbaɪndərɪ /
noun
- a place in which books are bound Often shortened tobindery
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bookbindery1
An Americanism dating back to 1805–15; bookbinder + -ry
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Example Sentences
Thence into a back hall piled high with boxes and past the presses of a bookbindery to the freight elevator.
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At the bookbindery several women and girls are engaged to fold the sheets.
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There was a nineteen-year-old lad who, when I knew him two years before, was doing boy's work in the Collier bookbindery.
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Silk is used in the bookbindery as end papers in extra work, and also for fancy goods and for lining boxes.
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