doublure

[ duh-bloor, doo-; French doo-blyr ]

noun

, plural dou·blures [d, uh, -, bloorz, doo-, doo-, blyr].

1. an ornamental lining of a book cover.

doublure

/ dəˈblʊə; dublyr /

noun

1. a decorative lining of vellum or leather, etc, on the inside of a book cover

Word History and Origins

Origin of doublure¹

1885–90; < French: a lining, equivalent to doubl ( er ) to line (literally, to double ) + -ure -ure

Word History and Origins

Origin of doublure¹

C19: from French: lining, from Old French doubler to make double

Example Sentences

Bob Fisher and Rob Greenberg‘s screenplay updates Francis Veber‘s French film “La Doublure” with texture and warmth.

From Los Angeles Times

After “La Doublure,” Roussel began “prospecting” for a new way of making work, which involved constructing an elaborate world of fantasy.

From The New Yorker

On the other hand, it must be noticed that a swine was sacrificed to Osiris, at the full moon, and it was in the form of a black swine that Typhon assailed Horus, the son of Osiris, whose myth is a doublure or replica, in some respects, of the Osirian myth itself.1 We may conjecture, then, that the fourteen portions into which the body of Osiris was rent may stand for the fourteen days of the waning moon.**

From Project Gutenberg

Doublure, the inside face of the boards, especially applied to them when lined with leather and decorated.

From Project Gutenberg

So it may display, for instance, a beautiful panel of leather—doublure—or it may share with the next page a decorative lining paper; but that next page should never be of leather, for it is the first page of the book.

From Project Gutenberg