Scrapbook
['skræpbʊk]
Definition
(noun.) an album into which clippings or notes or pictures can be pasted.
Checked by Curtis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a scrap-book, denotes disagreeable acquaintances will shortly be made.
Editor: Margaret
Examples
- To fill our heads, like a scrapbook, with this and that item as a finished and done-for thing, is not to think. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Without his scrapbooks, his chemicals, and his homely untidiness, he was an uncomfortable man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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