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adj. - (of books) having a flexible binding.

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  • Using a record-sized camera they take color shots of the material to be reproduced, etch the exposures so obtained on copper plates, and use the plates for printing by the...
  • She opened the purse and withdrew a paperbacked bub - ble with a blue derm inside.
  • It was first published in hardback by Muller in 1984, and then paperbacked by Sphere in 1985.
  • A small bookcase housed an array of medical volumes, some copies of the Australian Medical Journal, and three or four paperbacked novels.
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