bookcase
Americannoun
noun
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The Qatari plane has oversize leather seats and a faux library bookcase.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Scanning my bookcase, which contains a few hundred volumes, it occurred to me that none of them would make sense if Sister Albertine hadn’t grown me into a reader.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
It was discovered without a dustcover on a bookcase during a home clearance in Bristol.
From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025
In its Old Hollywood heyday, it once featured a secret casino accessed by hidden doors; the casino has since been removed, but the hidden door and hallway, found through a rotating bookcase, remain.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2025
Natalie stood on her desk chair and put the Mariposa boxes up as high as she could on her bookcase, higher up than her laptop, where her memories would be safest from a flood.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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