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dust jacket

dust jacket

noun

  1. a removable paper cover used to protect a bound book Also calledbook jacketjacket
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dust jacket1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

After watching the Los Angeles Open inspiration struck and he sketched the initial design for a new putter on the first thing he could find, the dust jacket of an old vinyl record.

From BBC

Consider applying a Mylar dust jacket cover to books that warrant special protection.

He attended Santa Monica High School, and, according to a dust jacket biography from one of his books, enlisted in the U.S.

I picked out a half-dozen books, starting with a 1949 first American edition in dust jacket of Nancy Mitford’s comic novel, “Love in a Cold Climate.”

When he went to college, he’d tack the tattered dust jacket to the bulletin board in his dorm room.

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