blankbook

[blangk-book, blangk-book]

noun

1. a book containing blank pages, as a notebook or sketchbook.

2. a book or pad of blank forms, as printed blanks for receipts or reports.

Word History and Origins

Origin of blankbook¹

An Americanism dating back to 1705–15; blank + book

Example Sentences

A memorandum of a few bequests was discovered in a little blankbook in his desk, showing that he had given some thought to the subject; but these, of course, amounted to nothing, and Philip Wentworth was appalled when he realized what such culpable neglect on the part of Mr. Temple meant in connection with his mother and sister.

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Dig up the biggest blankbook you own and get going.

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It was a small blankbook about six inches long and four inches wide, well bound in leather and thoroughly water-soaked.

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Mr. Fenelby wrote it in his blankbook, at the top of the first blank page.

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He opened the desk and pulled from beneath the pile of loose papers and tissue patterns with which it was littered the large blankbook in which Mrs. Fenelby, in one of her spurts of economical system, had once begun a record of household expenditures—a bothersome business that lasted until she had to foot up the first week’s figures, and then stopped.

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