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Definition: BOOKHOLDER

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A prompter at a theater.[Websters]
2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Bookholder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Definition: BOOKHOLDER

Part of SpeechDefinition
Noun1. A prompter at a theater.[Websters]
2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "BOOKHOLDER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)