dust jacket

noun

Origin:
1925–30

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dust jacket or dust cover
 
n
book jacket, Also called: jacket a removable paper cover used to protect a bound book
 
dust cover or dust cover
 
n

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Dust jacket is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
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.
Example sentences
She cataloged the contents of each disc on the record's dust jacket as the
  recording was taking place.
For cost reasons, the first printing did not have a dust jacket.
But perhaps the coolest thing about this book is that if you move quickly, you
  can customize your own dust jacket.
The book comes to us wrapped in more than its dust jacket.
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