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thumb index

–noun
a series of labeled notches cut along the fore edge of a book, to indicate the divisions or sections.

Origin:
1900–05

thumb-in⋅dex

[thuhm-in-deks]
–verb (used with object)
to provide (a book) with a thumb index.
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