commonplace book

NOUN
  1. a notebook in which you enter memorabilia
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  • He wrote it down in his commonplace book because that was where he stored anecdotes on specifically ethical and political topics. The Times Literary Supplement
  • It is more than a commonplace book - a wonderful thing in itself, but anecdotal and made in the moment. Times, Sunday Times
  • The commonplace book fixes time and arrests fading memory. Times, Sunday Times
  • It sometimes reads like the most self-indulgent and maundering commonplace book, pregnant with ideas and jottings, their author unwilling or unable to develop them cogently.
  • Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • This project is producing a database guide to about 400 manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books by British women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
  • It is more than a commonplace book - a wonderful thing in itself, but anecdotal and made in the moment. Times, Sunday Times
  • For example, he called Madonna's chromium-plated coffee table book SEX "a Commonplace book for our day, by the Daisy Ashford of the 1990s, as filled with homilies and naive dreams as the diary of any Victorian young lady. Ballard Gone: World at Half Mast
  • He wrote it down in his commonplace book because that was where he stored anecdotes on specifically ethical and political topics. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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