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soft-cover

American

[sawft-kuhv-er, soft-] / ˈsɔftˌkʌv ər, ˈsɒft- /

noun

paperback.

soft-cover British

adjective

a less common word for paperback

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Etymology

Origin of soft-cover

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

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Only the young novelist comes out all right: he gets the girl, his book is snapped up by Doubleday and a book club, and should do extremely well in soft-cover editions.

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One of his favorites is "bookazine," meaning a soft-cover book marketed like a magazine.

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Last week, capping one of the most successful book promotions in history, they sold the paperback rights to Dell Publishing Co. for $750,000, an exceptionally large soft-cover advance.

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MSS secured reprint permissions from the various authors, added a table of contents and preface by Professor Garcia, and published a 224-page soft-cover edition in six weeks.

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The merry mailman cannot mangle the thing in your letter slot and twist it into some kind of soft-cover Calder.

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