Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stall where books are sold, as on a street.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stall or stand where books are sold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A table with enclosed sides, for displaying
books forsale .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a shop where books are sold
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Examples
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It was the first book in English I ever bought, and to this day when I see a copy of the Seasons on a bookstall, which is often enough, I cannot keep my fingers off it and find it hard to resist the temptation to throw
Afoot in England 1881
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In England, I found the woman who'd discovered Ali and Nino in a postwar Berlin bookstall and done the first translation of it into English in the 1960's.
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To please her Sophia spent some time beating down the bookstall man.
Commonplace 2010
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Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall.
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One day, looking over a second-hand bookstall with Minna, she opened a snuffy volume that had English poems in it.
"One could love her for the only sufficient reason that one chose to." 2010
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To please her Sophia spent some time beating down the bookstall man.
A Different Stripe: 2010
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City Books' owners, Paul and Inge Sweetman, and their delightful team yet again got into the spirit of the event, manning their bookstall dressed in yellow high-visibility jackets and hard hats.
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To please her Sophia spent some time beating down the bookstall man.
"One could love her for the only sufficient reason that one chose to." 2010
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One day, looking over a second-hand bookstall with Minna, she opened a snuffy volume that had English poems in it.
A Different Stripe: 2010
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One day, looking over a second-hand bookstall with Minna, she opened a snuffy volume that had English poems in it.
Commonplace 2010
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