A book, often bound with a red cover, or online equivalent, that is an official, or canonical, collection of data, regulations, or writings.
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Singular:
red-book
Plural:
red books
Origin of red-book
red + book as a fixed title for various official books from the 15th century, especially the Red Book of the Exchequer, a manuscript volume of the 13th century (OED).
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Red-book Sentence Examples
Among Round's works may be mentioned Feudal England (1895); Geoffrey de Mandeville (1892); and Studies on the Red Book of the Exchequer (1898).
In 1216 Magna Carta, a copy of which is to be found in the Red Book of the Exchequer, was granted to the Irish by Henry III.
She also discovers the enchantment holding the house in darkness is contained within a red book called Century, written by her father.
A red book is usually a book whose cover is red, a red grapefruit is yellow on the surface.
This method is typified in Carl Jung's, The Red Book.