bookmobile
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məˌbil, -moʊ- noun
an automobile, small truck, or trailer constructed to carry books and serve as a traveling library, as for communities where libraries are not accessible.
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| (US), (Canadian) Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): mobile library a vehicle providing lending library facilities | |
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Bookmobile
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Encyclopedia Britannica
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bookmobile
shelf-lined motor van or other vehicle that carries books to rural and urban areas, establishes library service in areas that are too small to justify the creation of a stable branch, and acts as a demonstration model for communities that can afford library service and may choose to establish future stable branches. The earliest prototypes, which appeared in the 19th century in England and in the early 20th century in the United States, were horse-drawn book wagons. These provided service to individual homes, as well as to village centres.
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Example sentences
We have a strong bookmobile program which serves a large rural population.
When school was out, the summer bookmobile was my lifeline.
The bookmobile covers the entire county and has six routes.
Park amenities include barber and beauty services, barbecue campfire area, three laundry rooms and bi-weekly bookmobile visits.
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