clipbook

English

Etymology

clip + book

Noun

clipbook (plural clipbooks)

  1. A kind of scrapbook for keeping clippings.
    • 1974, Richard S. Hodgson, The Dartnell direct mail and mail order handbook:
      [] clipbooks containing a number of illustrations at a cost of pennies each []
    • 1999, Robert L. Root, E.B. White: the emergence of an essayist, page 61:
      Kerr's clipbooks then, such as Journey to the Center of the Theater, tend to be made up of more enduring, less ephemeral pieces. Wicker found that his pieces were so time bound that he was unable to collect them into a clipbook []
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