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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An incunabulum.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A book printed in the infancy of the art, before the year 1500. See incunabula, 3.

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  • noun A very early printed book, specifically one printed before 1501; an incunabulum.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from New Latin incūnābulum; see incunabulum.]

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From French incunable, from Latin incunabula ("swaddling-clothes, cradle"). Compare incunabulum.

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  • alt. of incunabulum; a book printed before 1501.

    July 24, 2008