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lending library
noun
1.
Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
2.
Chiefly British. a public library that lends materials or the division or section of it that carries out this function.
Origin:
1700–10
1700–10
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| lending library | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Also called (esp US): circulating library the department of a public library providing books for use outside the building |
| 2. | a small commercial library |
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Lending-library
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| 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. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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