dust jacket
nounDefinition of dust jacket
: a paper cover for a book
Examples of dust jacket in a Sentence
The dust jacket was torn.
Recent Examples on the Web
The dust jacket of the Italian edition of The Catholic School tells its readers right away that the book is inspired by this near-mythical crime. — Tim Parks, Harper's magazine, "Murder Italian Style," 19 Aug. 2019 The intensity of Murdoch’s gaze, boring into you from the dust jackets of her many novels, seemed a promise of the books’ contents. — New York Times, "On the Centennial of Iris Murdoch’s Birth, Remembering a 20th-Century Giant," 25 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dust jacket.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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