bookrest

[ book-rest ]

noun

1. a support for an open book, usually holding it at a slight angle.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bookrest¹

First recorded in 1865–70; book + rest ¹

Example Sentences

The book is propped on a red bookrest, which chimes with the other colors: the green robes and grass, the lavender landscape, the golden sky, the blue book, the orange carpet.

From Washington Post

She stood, she knelt, her prayer book open upon the carved margin of the tomb, the slender crossed legs and paws of the alert little marble dog serving as so often before for bookrest.

From Project Gutenberg

The earliest specimen is a reading desk, presented by the Mikado, with a slope for a book much resembling an ordinary bookrest, but charmingly decorated with lacquer in landscape subjects on the flat surfaces, while the smaller parts are diapered with flowers and quatrefoils in relief of lac and gold.

From Project Gutenberg

"Madame Bovary!" he said quizzically, reading the title of the book on the little fat man's bookrest; and, holding it closer to his boiled-looking eyes, he repeated, as though it were a joke, "Madame Bovary!"

From Project Gutenberg

Above the screw is a bookrest; at the foot a pedestal, with the ink-bottle upon it.

From Project Gutenberg