bookend

[ book-end ]

noun

1. a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
2. one of two things occurring or located at either end of something else:

   two events that served as bookends to my career.

verb (used with object)

1. to occur or be located at the beginning and end of:

   His term in office was bookended by crises.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bookend¹

First recorded in 1905–10; book + end ¹

Example Sentences

Nadal has played a significant part in five Davis Cup victories for his nation and another would be the perfect way to bookend his career.

From BBC

I think it’s such a good bookend for his character because without it, the whole thing is just very, very dark.

From Los Angeles Times

It could be that his event in Madison Square Garden is a fascist bookend to his speech in Waco, TX.

From Salon

It was, in effect, a trimmed-down version of her Democratic National Convention address – a bookend to the late August speech that the campaign billed as an introduction to Americans.

From BBC

The rally at the Garden represents a bookend to the start of his improbable presidential campaign in 2015.

From Los Angeles Times