commonplace book

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noun

a book in which noteworthy quotations, comments, etc., are written.

Origin of commonplace book

First recorded in 1570–80

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Related Words for commonplace book

diary, journal

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Historical Examples of commonplace book

Every one has his and her own way of keeping a commonplace-book.
The Private Library
Arthur L. Humphreys
I have a commonplace-book for facts, and another for poetry.
Concord Days
A. Bronson Alcott
She has evidently just taken up this study; her exercises show the same thoroughness she exhibited in her German commonplace-book.
The Story of a Life
J. Breckenridge Ellis
Mr. Monroe took up his commonplace-book, and made memorandums of my statements respecting the mines.
Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Distrust the gentleman in the plush terminations; he, too, is a penny-a-liner, and keeps a commonplace-book in the pantry.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 65, No. 400, February, 1849
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British Dictionary definitions for commonplace book

commonplace book

noun

a notebook in which quotations, poems, remarks, etc, that catch the owner's attention are entered

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