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bookcraft

[ book-kraft, -krahft ]
/ ˈbʊkˌkræft, -ˌkrɑft /

noun Archaic.

literary skill; authorship.

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Origin of bookcraft

before 900; Old English bōccræft (not recorded in ME). See book, craft

Words nearby bookcraft

bookbindery, bookbinding, book burning, bookcase, book club, bookcraft, bookcrossing, booked up, bookend, Booker Prize, book gill
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Example sentences from the Web for bookcraft

  • Other interesting testimony to the bookcraft and collecting habits of the friars is not wanting.

    Old English Libraries|Ernest Savage