bookplate

English

Etymology

book +‎ plate

Noun

bookplate (plural bookplates)

1. A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.
   • 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, paperback edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 259:

     By the bed there was a bookcase with old French novels, left-behind Frederick Forsyths, odd leather-bound volumes of history and memoirs with the coroneted Kessler bookplate.

Translations

piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership

• Bulgarian: екслибрис m (ekslibris)
• Chinese:

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• Estonian: eksliibris
• Finnish: exlibris
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: ex-libris (fr) m
• German: Exlibris (de) n
• Spanish: ex libris m
• Swedish: exlibris (sv) n, exlibrismärke n

Verb

1. (transitive) To affix a bookplate to (a book).