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commonplace book

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commonplace book
n.
A personal journal in which quotable passages, literary excerpts, and comments are written.
commonplace book
n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a notebook in which quotations, poems, remarks, etc., that catch the owner's attention are entered
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Noun1.commonplace book - a notebook in which you enter memorabilia
notebook - a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda


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Dalloway and the habit, now fallen into decline, of quoting Greek in the House of Commons, noted, in the great commonplace book that lies open beside us as we talk, the fact that all men, even men like Ridley, really prefer women to be fashionable.
The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia View in context
When our visitor was silent Holmes stretched out his hand and took down letter "S" of his commonplace book.
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