Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The ornamental lining on the inner covers of a sumptuous book. The simpler styles are of silk, velvet, or brocade. Highly decorated books have linings of thin leather, with borders or centerpieces hand-tooled in gold. See cut on page 392.
- noun In paleontology, the reflexed inferior margin of the carapace in the Trilobita, specially noticeable on the cephalon and pygidium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bookbinding) The lining of a book cover, esp. one of unusual sort, as of tooled leather, painted vellum, rich brocade, or the like.
- noun (Paleon.) The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace.
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- noun an
elaborately decorated leather flyleaf in abook
Etymologies
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Examples
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But Watteau never signed or dated his work, and not a single scrap of documentary evidence in his own hand survives - save, possibly, the word "doublure" "lining" inscribed next to the cape of a male figure in a sketch, which can be seen in the Royal Academy's superb new exhibition.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The intricate blind-tooling of the doublure shadowed forth the blind fate which left us in ignorance of our future and our past, or of even what the day itself might bring forth.
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The intricate blind-tooling of the doublure shadowed forth the blind fate which left us in ignorance of our future and our past, or of even what the day itself might bring forth.
Baxter's Procrustes Charles Waddell 1904
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The intricate blind-tooling of the doublure shadowed forth the blind fate which left us in ignorance of our future and our past, or of even what the day itself might bring forth.
Baxter's Procrustes 1904
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So it may display, for instance, a beautiful panel of leather -- doublure -- or it may share with the next page
The Booklover and His Books Harry Lyman Koopman 1898
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Hermes is here a rustic _doublure_ of Apollo, as he was, in fact, mainly a rural deity, though he became the Messenger of the
The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Andrew Lang 1878
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As a go-between of Gods and men, Hermes may be a _doublure_ of Apollo, but, as the Hymn shows, he aspired in vain to Apollo's oracular function.
The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Andrew Lang 1878
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Ayant déchiré la doublure du dernier, je n'ai pas eu le temps de m'y remettre avant les dernières vacances.
Tempus fugit 2008
reesetee commented on the word doublure
leather internal lining of a book cover (used in rare/antique book trade)
February 20, 2007