Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The prompter at a theater.
- noun A reading-desk or other device for supporting a book while open.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A prompter at a theater.
- noun A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
support for abook , holding itopen forreading orcopying . - noun obsolete A
prompter at atheatre .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Books everywhere mostly Harry Potter as well as a broken ceramic bookholder.
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Books everywhere mostly Harry Potter as well as a broken ceramic bookholder.
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I chit chatted with Mae a bit and ended up leaning against a bookholder.
waterdiluted Diary Entry waterdiluted 2006
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The bathtub, equipped with an ingenious bookholder, was low and large.
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The bathtub, equipped with an ingenious bookholder, was low and large.
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Induction to "Cynthia's Revels," "as to have his presence in the tiring-house, to prompt us aloud, stamp at the bookholder [or prompter], swear at our properties, curse the poor tireman, rail the musick out of tune, and sweat for every venial trespass we commit as some author would."
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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"Mom, this nice lady doesn't have that pesky bookholder in her lap like you always do."
Stumbling Over Chaos 2009
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