Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book kept on board of United States men-of-war, in which the conduct and ability of each man of the crew is noted.
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Examples
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The relations between the rank-and-file and the officers, some of whom, even in prison, were keeping a sort of conduct-book for their men, were hostile.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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No, as you have told me yourself, I will not enter it in your conduct-book.
For the Sake of the School Angela Brazil 1907
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Her ambivalent feelings were not the desired conduct-book response of good-girl obedience to an arbitrary patriarchy (such as Matilda initially displays in Castle of Otranto), but the sentimental heroine's response to gothic events and structures (which Matilda displays when discovering herself to be jealous of Theodore's attentions to
Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006
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