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  • noun A dust jacket

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Examples

  • A large telescopic sight was mounted above the chamber, the front lens capped with a dustcover.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • For the sort of person who is troubled by the fact that her dustcover has the wrong corners, the phony bag, which she knows full well is merely similar but not identical to the one Gwyneth Paltrow carries, is a haunting reminder of failure.

    Carried Away 2007

  • A large telescopic sight was mounted above the chamber, the front lens capped with a dustcover.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • A large telescopic sight was mounted above the chamber, the front lens capped with a dustcover.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • She cautions that you should make sure that the color of the handle exactly matches the piping (a ridiculous concern, in reality, since the leather trim on a Louis Vuitton bag will fade unevenly), and that the dustcover not have rounded corners.

    Carried Away 2007

  • But actually, I was here before anyone else, and in fact, when I picked up the first book in 1996, I instantly though, as I do with every book that I pick up to read the dustcover sleeve, that HBO should pick it up.

    Too much hype? 2009

  • Usually some kind of bookmark, or the flaps from a dustcover or the dustcover itself.

    A Meme Regarding Books Kev 2009

  • Pete pulled on his jeans and went to the garage for more firewood, and Killian, swathed in a dustcover borrowed from a chair nearby, padded barefoot to the bathroom.

    Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009

  • Usually some kind of bookmark, or the flaps from a dustcover or the dustcover itself.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Kev 2009

  • For the sort of person who is troubled by the fact that her dustcover has the wrong corners, the phony bag, which she knows full well is merely similar but not identical to the one Gwyneth Paltrow carries, is a haunting reminder of failure.

    Carried Away 2007

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