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copybook

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cop·y·book  (kp-bk)
n.
An exercise book containing models of penmanship, used in teaching handwriting.
adj.
Unoriginal; trite: used copybook phrases in the essay.

copybook
Noun
1. a book of specimens of handwriting for imitation
2. blot one's copybook Informal to spoil one's reputation by a mistake or indiscretion
Adjective
1. done exactly according to the rules
2. trite or unoriginal
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Noun1.copybookcopybook - a book containing models of good penmanship; used in teaching penmanship
book - a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together); "I am reading a good book on economics"

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After some ineffectual remonstrance I kept away from him, staying in a room--evidently a children's schoolroom--containing globes, forms, and copybooks.
"I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks, and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end," he said dolefully.
His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves of old copybooks.
 
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