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bookstack

American  
[book-stak] / ˈbʊkˌstæk /

noun

  1. Usually bookstacks. stack.


Etymology

Origin of bookstack

First recorded in 1895–1900; book + stack

Example Sentences

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Though he once taught school in Hanoi, Giap was no bookstack scholar.

From Time Magazine Archive

The interior will be a vast, uncolumned hall enclosing a freestanding glass-enclosed bookstack faced with red-leather-bound presidential papers.

From Time Magazine Archive

It stands, massive and modern, at the start of Kalinin Street near the Kremlin, with a gigantic block-long bookstack.

From Time Magazine Archive

To prove that they are not merely bookstack grinds, applicants are asked to run 1,000 meters and swim 50 meters.

From Time Magazine Archive

The long windows are to light the bookstack.

From Handbook of The New York Public Library by New York Public Library