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Definition of Copybook
1. Noun. A book containing models of good penmanship; used in teaching penmanship.
Definition of Copybook
1. Noun. A student’s exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied ¹
2. Noun. (computing) A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from a shared library; boilerplate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Copybook
1. a book used in teaching penmanship [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Copybook
Literary usage of Copybook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practical French Teacher: Or, A New Method of Learning to Read, Write by Norman Pinney (1852)
"I have not the paper ; I have the pencil and the copybook. ... No, sir ; you have
not the coarse, carpet ; you have the old copybook and the pretty stick. ..."
2. One Year in Sweden: Including a Visit to the Isle of Götland by Horace Marryat (1862)
"... St. Henry — His holy thumb — Library-—• — Codex Argenteus — Erik's diary—Gustavian
papers — His first copybook — Education — First and last Blue-book. ..."
3. The Practical French Teacher: Or, a New Method of Learning to Read, Write by Norman Pinney (1855)
"I have not the paper ; I have the pencil and the copybook. ... No, sir ; you have
not the coarse carpet ; you have the old copybook and the pretty stick. ..."
4. Ollendorff's New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the French by Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff, Victor Value (1860)
"Have I the copybook that you have ? (Have I the copybook you have ? ... What copybook
have you? I have the big one which you have not. ..."
5. Ollendorff's New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the French by Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff, Victor Value (1857)
"(Have I the copybook you hav« Î) as it is frequently in ... What copybook have you?
I have the big one which you have not.—What horse has the shoemaker ? ..."
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