hornbook
[hawrn-boo k]
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Origin of hornbook
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Related Words for hornbook
debut, installation, opening, addition, presentation, inauguration, launch, initiation, preface, establishment, influx, ingress, awakening, insertion, primer, lead, prelude, admittance, lead-in, inductionExamples from the Web for hornbook
Contemporary Examples of hornbook
This may seem like hornbook eighth-grade civics, but it bears repeating.
Historical Examples of hornbook
But I swear to thee I never read through the hornbook of the heavens.
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
For hornbook and primmer for Jenkins' girle to learn to read, 6d.
Notes and Queries for WorcestershireJohn Noake
The printed cardboard battledore was a successor of the hornbook.
Child Life in Colonial DaysAlice Morse Earle
This like the criss-cross row in the hornbook was originally Christ's cross.
Child Life in Colonial DaysAlice Morse Earle
Decker, in "Gul's Hornbook," speaks of "the unicorn whose horn is worth a city."
The Queer, the Quaint and the QuizzicalFrank H. Stauffer
hornbook
- 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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