bookmaking

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book·mak·er (b

1. One that edits, prints, publishes, or binds books.

2. One who accepts and pays off bets, as on a horserace. Also called bookie.

bookmaking n.

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bookmaking [ˈbʊkmeɪkɪŋ] N → apuestas fpl, correduría f de apuestas
a bookmaking firm → una casa de apuestas

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Their modest old brown cloth binding had long been a quiet warrant of quality in the literature it covered, and now this splendid blossom of the bookmaking art, as it seemed, was fitly employed to convey the sweetness and richness of the loveliest poetry that I thought the world had yet known.

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