dust jacket

American  

noun

1. book jacket.

---

dust jacket British  

noun

1. Also called: book jacket.   jacket.  a removable paper cover used to protect a bound book

---

Etymology

Origin of dust jacket

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

If a dust jacket is torn on a coffee table book or cookbook, she’ll remove it, often revealing a cover with a “beautiful, classic, simple style.”

From MarketWatch • Nov. 19, 2025

Secreted inside the technobabble dust jacket was a Polish-language copy of George Orwell’s “1984,” the boring cover a deliberate misdirection to deter prying eyes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2025

To paraphrase the dust jacket of my own book, "If We Survive This": these are not the girls who survive.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2025

After watching the Los Angeles Open inspiration struck and he sketched the initial design for a new putter on the first thing he could find, the dust jacket of an old vinyl record.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2024

At the time it had still had a cardboard binding and a torn paper dust jacket.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke