paperbacked

English

Etymology

paper + backed

Adjective

paperbacked (not comparable)

  1. Having the sort of flexible binding characteristic of a paperback book.
    • 1935, "Dickensian," New York Times, 20 Jan. (retrieved 14 Apr. 2009):
      He has literary leanings, is reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, buying each volume as he can, in a paperbacked edition.

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