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dust jacket

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dust jacket
n.
1. A removable paper cover used to protect the binding of a book. Also called dust cover.
2. A cardboard sleeve in which a phonograph record is packaged.

dust jacket, cover
n
(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a removable paper cover used to protect a bound book Also called book jacket jacket
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.dust jacket - a paper jacket for a book; a jacket on which promotional information is usually printed
jacket - an outer wrapping or casing; "phonograph records were sold in cardboard jackets"
Translations
dust jacket dust cover n (of book) → sopraccoperta, copertina


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The 33-year-old, who flew to Rome from Mexico City via Paris, had concealed the drug in super-thin vacuum packs inside the dust jackets of long-playing vinyl records, the airport news agency said.
Bibliographies have been updated and numerous illustrations are now included with many author's portraits and original dust jackets.
If the picture on the dust jacket happens to show a gorgeous gal kitted out in suspenders, sprawled over a four-poster and brandishing a family-sized jar of peanut butter.
 
 
 
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