dust cover

noun

1. a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
2. book jacket.

dust cover

noun

1. another name for dustsheet
2. another name for dust jacket
3. a perspex cover for the turntable of a record player

Word History and Origins

Origin of dust cover¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Beside the lens was a speaker grille and a smaller opening that looked like a microphone dust cover.

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Mary-'Gusta hurriedly untwisted her legs and scrambled from beneath the dust cover of the surrey.

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With a cry she dropped both dolls, ran back to the surrey and fumbled frantically with the dust cover.

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The child struggled and then, bursting into a storm of sobs, hid her face in the dust cover.

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To induce readers to buy it it has a picture on its dust-cover which kept me from reading it for weeks.

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