bookmobile
[boo k-muh-beel, -moh-]
- an automobile, small truck, or trailer constructed to carry books and serve as a traveling library, as for communities where libraries are not accessible.
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For example, the bookmobile was a WPA program—old bread and milk trucks full of nailed-up shelves.
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bookmobile
- US and Canadian a vehicle providing lending library facilitiesAlso called (in Britain and certain other countries): mobile library
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