bookend

[ book-end ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
one of two things occurring or located at either end of something else:
two events that served as bookends to my career.

to occur or be located at the beginning and end of:
His term in office was bookended by crises.

Origin of bookend¹

First recorded in 1905–10; book + end ¹

Your death is a tragic bookend to a year touted as the “transgender tipping point.”

These weeks, and especially fast days that bookend them, are about remembering the experience of loss.

Farm kids are educated early about the events that bookend life.

And it became a sort of bookend to my first experience with him.

But 9/11 has defined our stubbornly nameless decade, along with the bookend election of Barack Obama.

Before I could follow, Nan had dropped the bookend and flung herself into my arms.

She held a heavy bookend poised to strike at Ashe, who was in front of her, moving stealthily forward.

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