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WELL-BOUND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does well-bound mean?
• WELL-BOUND (adjective)
The adjective WELL-BOUND has 1 sense:
1. (of books) having a sturdy and attractive binding
Familiarity information: WELL-BOUND used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of books) having a sturdy and attractive binding
Similar:
bound (secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form)
Context examples
Captain Harville was no reader; but he had contrived excellent accommodations, and fashioned very pretty shelves, for a tolerable collection of well-bound volumes, the property of Captain Benwick.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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