Synonyms:
bookcase
Meaning: a piece of furniture with shelves for storing books
Usage examples
So the bookcase was closed again.
A little red bookcase inside the church was the attraction.
There was a bookcase of bluebooks, books of reference and suchlike material, and some files.
Bruno took a very small book out of the bookcase, opened it, and shook it in imitation of the Professor.
The bookcase proper rested upon this projecting cupboard, thus raising the books above the level of the furniture.
In the days when furniture was defined as "that which may be carried about," the natural bookcase was a chest with a strong lock.
One day when the boy was about fifteen, Fyodor Pavlovitch noticed him lingering by the bookcase, and reading the titles through the glass.
She had found that no key barred her way into this little red treasure-house of a bookcase, and a board propped against the wall under the window outside gave her an easy entrance into the church.
To be decorative, a bookcase need not contain the productions of the master-binders,--old volumes by Eve and Derome, or the work of Roger Payne and Sanderson,--unsurpassed as they are in color-value.
Architects are beginning to rediscover the forgotten fact that the stud of a room should be regulated by the dimensions of its floor-space; so that in the newer houses the dwarf bookcase is no longer a necessity.