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Commonplace book   /kˈɑmənplˌeɪs bʊk/   Listen
Commonplace book

noun
1.
A notebook in which you enter memorabilia.





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"Commonplace book" Quotes from Famous Books



... time to make plans, and to put them down in your Garden-book. Have you a Garden-book? A note-book, I mean, devoted to garden memoranda. It is a very useful kind of commonplace book, and soon becomes as fascinating as ...
— Last Words - A Final Collection of Stories • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... book [Footnote: A commonplace book with a few written sketches of people in it.] which you entrusted to me: I was very much interested by it. The sketch of Gladstone is excellent. Pray write some more of it some time: I understand him better after ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith
... discernment is in perfect order. The advantage of this is that he is enabled to make use of Don Quixote as a mouthpiece for his own reflections, and so, without seeming to digress, allow himself the relief of digression when he requires it, as freely as in a commonplace book. ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Words linked to "Commonplace book" :   notebook


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