British Library


noun
  1. the national library of Great Britain: part of the British Museum until 1973.

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British Library

noun
  1. the British national library, formed in 1973 from the British Museum library and other national collections: housed mainly in the British Museum until 1997 when a purpose-built library in St Pancras, London, was completed

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