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commonplace book

a book in which extracts, poems, aphorisms, etc. are copied down for future reference, often together with one's ideas and reflections

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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