book jacket

American  

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.

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Etymology

Origin of book jacket

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.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2024

Elsewhere, the book jacket featured a line from James Marriott's review in the Times, which said: "A philosophy of the meaning of life... the most lucid and touching prose Peterson has ever written."

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2023

It’s captivating enough that, as the book jacket notes, President Barack Obama once declared that “everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2021

While reading Plato’s Republic, for instance, I needed to keep looking at the book jacket comments to remind myself what the text was about.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez