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noun

a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
book jacket.

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RELATED WORDS

jacket, wrapper

Nearby words

dust cart, dust catcher, dust cell, dust coat, dust counter, dust cover, dust devil, dust down, dust explosion, dust gun, dust head

Origin of dust cover

First recorded in 1900–05
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for dust cover

  • The unmistakable sound of breathing now issued from the region of the bed, and the dust-cover commenced slowly to slip aside.

    Scottish Ghost Stories|Elliott O'Donnell

  • We had those points separated for a half-million volts discharge, but there was a dust-cover thrown over them just now.

    The Ultimate Weapon|John Wood Campbell

  • To induce readers to buy it it has a picture on its dust-cover which kept me from reading it for weeks.

    Waiting for Daylight|Henry Major Tomlinson

British Dictionary definitions for dust cover

dust cover

noun

another name for dustsheet
another name for dust jacket
a perspex cover for the turntable of a record player
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