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clothbound

[klawth-bound, kloth-]
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adjective
  1. (of a book) bound with cloth rather than paper, leather, etc.

Origin of clothbound

First recorded in 1855–60; cloth + bound1
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British Dictionary definitions for clothbound

clothbound

adjective
  1. (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
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