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Definition of Doublure
1. n. The lining of a book cover, esp. one of unusual sort, as of tooled leather, painted vellum, rich brocade, or the like.
Definition of Doublure
1. Noun. an elaborately decorated leather flyleaf in a book ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doublure
1. the lining of a book cover [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doublure
Literary usage of Doublure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Catalogue of the Library of John Jay Paul, Watertown, Florida: Principally by John Jay Paul (1912)
"... the spaces richly tooled in gold; doublure of green morocco, with bands of
darker green and inner borders repeating cover designs; by The Club Bindery. ..."
2. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology by Charles Doolittle Walcott, Charles Elmer Resser (1908)
"Cast of the under side of the doublure of the cephalon, with casts of the spines
along ... Note the cast of the small spines on the margin of the doublure. ..."
3. Geology of the Boston Basin by William Otis Crosby (1900)
"From this specimen it appears, that the facial suture, after reaching the frontal
margin, passes over, and bends inward at a slight angle, on the doublure, ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1911)
"T. Farm Record and Account Book, Foote. Walker * Stonestreet, 507 Fifth Ат*„ Я.
T. Walt Whitman, ю vols., full levant doublure. Lamb. ..."
5. Illustrated Catalogue of the Valuable Library Formed by the Late M.C.D by Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden, American Art Association, American Art Galleries (1913)
"Full blue crushed levant morocco, with a gold-tooled border on the covers, doublure
of red levant, gold-tooled, flies of blue ribbed silk, edges gilt on the ..."
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