bibliophilic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Its public lampposts and trash cans are adorned with bibliophilic hieroglyphs.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2021
I wanted to see if there is still, for a certain kind of bibliophilic seeker, as Simone de Beauvoir put it, “something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2012
The edition is unquestionably beautiful, a bibliophilic fantasy: the less aesthetic question is whether colour-coding helps or hinders us in interpreting Benjy's section.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2012
The site was formally introduced Tuesday night, not at some Silicon Alley start-up but, rather, at the venerable Grolier Club, a haven for bibliophilic New Yorkers on East 60th Street.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2011
And when attacked By rage of bibliophilic greed, You prigged that small Quantin Ovide, Although I prized it.
From In the Track of the Bookworm by Browne, Irving
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