dust jacket

noun

1. book jacket.

dust jacket

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of dust jacket¹

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.”

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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.

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

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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.

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Consider applying a Mylar dust jacket cover to books that warrant special protection.

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