yellow pages
a classified telephone directory or section of a directory, listing subscribers by the type of business or service they offer, usually printed on yellow paper.
Origin of yellow pages
1- Compare white pages.
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How to use yellow pages in a sentence
I looked in the yellow pages and saw that the Holiday Inn also advertised color TV.
‘The Land of the Permanent Wave’ Is Bud Shrake’s Classic Take on ‘60s Texas | Edwin Shrake | February 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI like to see my desktop covered with face-up yellow pages drying like paintings in the sun.
Apparently, Alexander is the one person still using the yellow pages.
March 28: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk | The Daily Beast Video | March 28, 2010 | THE DAILY BEASTIn these yellow pages is a melancholy reflection of the gayety and gallantry of the Sans Souci hotel seventy years ago.
Washington Irving | Charles Dudley WarnerI will tear the core out of many yellow pages of diffuse writing spiced with smug moral reflections.
The Thing from the Lake | Eleanor M. Ingram
I had taken the copy of Graziani's suites off the desk, and was holding it on my lap turning over the old foxed and yellow pages.
The Lost Stradivarius | John Meade FalknerI took the book in my hand and turned over its yellow pages.
Tales of South Africa | H.A. BrydenClinical psychologists are listed in the yellow pages under "Psychologists."
When You Don't Know Where to Turn | Steven J. Bartlett
British Dictionary definitions for Yellow Pages
trademark a classified telephone directory, often printed on yellow paper, that lists subscribers by the business or service provided
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