doublure

American  

[duh-bloor, doo-, doo-blyr] / dəˈblʊər, du-, duˈblür /

noun

plural

doublures

1. an ornamental lining of a book cover.

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doublure British  

/ dəˈblʊə, dublyr /

noun

1. a decorative lining of vellum or leather, etc, on the inside of a book cover

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Etymology

Origin of doublure

1885–90; < French: a lining, equivalent to doubl ( er ) to line (literally, to double ) + -ure -ure

Example Sentences

Hermes is here a rustic doublure of Apollo, as he was, in fact, mainly a rural p. 37deity, though he became the Messenger of the Gods, and the Guide of Souls outworn. 

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew

The intricate blind-tooling of the doublure shadowed forth the blind fate which left us in ignorance of our future and our past, or of even what the day itself might bring forth.

From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various