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
Rahaf immediately set up what she called "a shrine" to her sister Sara, with photographs and mementoes, including her watch, carefully laid out on a bookcase.
From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025
Hynes places his headphones down and drifts over to his bookcase, before coming back into frame 30 seconds later.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025
She reached behind a book, flipped a switch, and pulled on a bookcase, which swiveled out to reveal a steel door with a keypad.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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