dust jacket

See also: dustjacket

English

A book with a dust jacket.

Noun

dust jacket (plural dust jackets)

1. The detachable paper cover of a book; used to protect the binding, and to provide blurb.

Synonyms

• bookjacket
• dustcover

Translations

detachable protective cover of a book

• Bengali: মলাট (molaṭ) (loosely)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 書皮／书皮 (zh) (shūpí), 书皮 (zh) (shūpí)

• Dutch: boekomslag
• Faroese: bókakápa f
• Finnish: suojakansi (fi)
• French: jaquette (fr) f, liseuse (fr) f
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• German: Schutzumschlag m, Buchumschlag (de) m
• Icelandic: kápa (is) f
• Portuguese: sobrecapa f
• Russian: суперобло́жка (ru) f (superoblóžka)
• Spanish: sobrecubierta (es) f, forro (es) m
• Tagalog: pabalat, balot-aklat