bibliophilic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Nearby, Waverley Station is named after his novels; you’d be hard pressed to find a more bibliophilic transport terminus.
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2022
There’s almost no end to these bibliophilic niceties.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2020
The realms of his bibliophilic senses are suggested when a client asks if one of his books is by the Marquis de Sade.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2016
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
On this book-seller’s mouldy stall, Crammed full of volumes musty, I made a bibliophilic call And saw, in garments rusty, The ancient vender, queer to view, In breeches, buckles, and a queue.
From In the Track of the Bookworm by Browne, Irving
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