book-token

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Noun[edit]

book-token (plural book-tokens)

  1. Alternative form of book token
    • 1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels:
      I don't remember book-tokens — perhaps they hadn't been invented — and occasionally there were duplicate volumes.
    • 2010, Martin Amis, The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000, →ISBN:
      Perhaps they should be paid in something else: book-tokens, lecture coupons, night-class dockets, culture vouchers.
    • 2015, Margaret Yorke, No Fury, →ISBN:
      Bath salts seemed ordinary, a record or book-token impersonal, a pot-plant unimaginative.
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