commonplace book
See also: commonplace-book
English
Alternative forms
- commonplace-book
- commonplace (noun)
Noun
commonplace book (plural commonplace books)
- A personal notebook or journal in which memorabilia, quotations etc were written.
- 1910, Samuel Butler|, chapter 2, in Unconscious Memory:
- I did this in thirty pages of closely written matter, of which a pressed copy remains in my commonplace-book.
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