bibliothèque

American  

[bee-blee-aw-tek, bib-lee-uh-tek] / bi bli ɔˈtɛk, ˈbɪb li əˌtɛk /

noun

French.

• bibliothèques
  plural

1. a library.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bibliothèques
  plural

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bibliothèque

Yet, at the same time, he does not substantially possess, perhaps, much more than the master of a petite bibliothèque, on which the outlay has not been a hundredth part of his own.

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt

An Italian translation, presumably from the French, was printed three or four times from 1552 to 1622.13 A summary of the story is given in Mélanges tirés d’une grande bibliothèque, by E. V. 1780, pp.

From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gordon Hall Gerould

Would I like breakfast, he asked; and then—yes, certainly—to see the chapel, the bibliothèque, the monastery museum, and the Alpine garden?

From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

I need hardly remind my readers that the French word bibliothèque has the same double meaning.

From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark

I will leave the masters of bibliography to sing of greater matters, and will launch upon no more daring voyage than one autour de ma pauvre bibliothèque.

From Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse

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