“Commonplace Book: A personal notebook for recording literary passages, quotations, special thoughts, memories, etc.
‘In any case, Trapnel’s was still and unexplored period. Gwinnett added another item. ‘Did you know he kept a Commonplace Book during his last years?’ Anthony Powell, Temporary Kings’
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
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