scrapbook

American  

[skrap-book] / ˈskræpˌbʊk /

noun

1. an album in which pictures, newspaper clippings, etc., may be pasted or mounted.

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scrapbook British  

/ ˈskræpˌbʊk /

noun

1. a book or album of blank pages in which to mount newspaper cuttings, pictures, etc

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Etymology

Origin of scrapbook

First recorded in 1815–25; scrap ¹ + book

Example Sentences

You can find more of her work—along with an ongoing digital scrapbook and archive of the early web—at her website, default.blog.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

But the scrapbook may never be complete as for Tony, the goalposts keep moving.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

We had come across something that felt entirely new and brought the evidence home from faraway Dale Mabry Highway to preserve in that scrapbook.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

So he kept a scrapbook for a while, but then he just lost count of all the stories that made Harborough memorable.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2025

“Do you have like a scrapbook of pictures and letters he wrote?”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

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