Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small book or pamphlet containing poems, ballads, stories, or religious tracts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a class of tracts upon homely and miscellaneous subjects which at one time formed the chief popular literature of Great Britain and the American colonies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
book , usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containingpoems ,ballads orreligious tracts
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Tucked neatly at the back end of the chapbook is a selection of stills from the movie.
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Sunday, December 13, 2009 my chapbook is out, yay! i've been very bad about posting here, I know, but it's because I've been busy with a bunch of things.
atlas(t) clairelight 2009
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These will be collections of the original November 2007 Wind Tunnel Dreams and as many of the 2008 ones as can fit in chapbook #2.
Odin's Day michele_blue 2009
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(The limiteds will be shipping shortly, as soon as the bonus chapbook is in hand, likely next week.)
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(The limiteds will be shipping shortly, as soon as the bonus chapbook is in hand, likely next week.)
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The Webs of Discord chapbook is now available as a free download for those interested in some lovely horror.
Gratia Placenti excerpt available apexdigest 2008
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His latest chapbook is The Salvador-Dalai-Lama Express from Main Street Rag.
May « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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His latest chapbook is The Salvador-Dalai-Lama Express from Main Street Rag.
mark terrill | ways in, ways out « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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We can’t share a couple of glowing reviews this title received just yet, but we can tell you that the limited edition with bonus chapbook is already sold out, and the trade edition is selling as quickly as any title we’ve ever published by Caitlin.
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We’ll pull the chapbook from the Tales page when it’s no longer available as a freebie.
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This chapbook [Editor's Note: or small paperback booklet] takes you places: an exploding house, a Papa John's Dumpster, a greenhouse, a Ft. Lauderdale shelter, and a Kentucky cemetery.
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reesetee commented on the word chapbook
In book collecting, describes a cheaply printed book of the kind sold by street vendors in the 18th and 19th centuries.
February 25, 2008