bookchest
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
bookchest (plural bookchests)
- A chest for the storage of books.
- 1903, New Jersey. State Board of Education, Annual Report, page 52:
- Bookchests will be ready for distribution on the 4th Saturday of September and January. Books sent to the respective Circles are charged to the officers.
- 2013, Nancy Marie Brown, The Abacus and the Cross, page 206:
- He composed hymns, read holy works, and carried his bookchests wherever he went.