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hornbook
/ ˈhɔːnˌbʊk /
noun
- a page bearing a religious text or the alphabet, held in a frame with a thin window of flattened cattle horn over it
- any elementary primer
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This may seem like hornbook eighth-grade civics, but it bears repeating.
And, Captain Borroughcliffe, as you appear to be forgetting the use of your own language, here is even a hornbook for you!
It was difficult to get books in those days, and a hornbook would last a long time.
They also tell of the use of the hornbook and the sun-dial, describe the making of soap and candles, and so forth.
But not to nod over a hornbook at the petty school—not John Shakespeare's son!
His "Gull's Hornbook" is written against coxcombs, and he says their "vinegar railings shall not quench his Alpine resolutions."
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