book jacket

noun

1. a removable paper cover, usually illustrated, for protecting the binding of a book and usually giving information about the book and the author.

Word History and Origins

Origin of book jacket¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

On BookTok, where a flashed book jacket conveys a glimmer of a user’s inner life, a classic text can leave a durable impression.

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Helen Marcus, a late-blooming photographer whose evocative black-and-white portraits of literary figures and film and television personalities graced book jackets and magazine covers for decades, died on Oct.

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The book jacket cut out the word "hokey" so the quote read only: "Wisdom combined with good advice."

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All it takes to debunk this revelation is a glance at a few book jacket photos.

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“Day by day Drew Barrymore is making it,” the book jacket of 1990’s “Little Girl Lost” says.

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