commonplace book

See also: commonplace-book

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Noun

commonplace book (plural commonplace books)

  1. 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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