"chapbook" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Formerly sold by chapmen; see the etymology there, and book.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chapbooks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "chapbook (plural chapbooks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Books",
          "orig": "en:Books",
          "parents": [
            "Literature",
            "Mass media",
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Media",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1849 Notices of Fugitive Tracts: And Chap-books Printed at Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Churchyard, Etc\nThis was, till within the last few years, a favourite chapbook in the north of England."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 2]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "For Haines’s chapbook. No-one here to hear.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "2005 Kathryn A. Lowry - The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th Century China\nTwo such examples of slim, chapbook-style collections were both part of larger compendia […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts."
      ],
      "id": "en-chapbook-en-noun-MYtisWHy",
      "links": [
        [
          "book",
          "book"
        ],
        [
          "poem",
          "poem"
        ],
        [
          "ballad",
          "ballad"
        ],
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "tract",
          "tract"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "small book",
          "word": "chapbook"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "small book",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "livret de colportage"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "small book",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "książeczka liryczna"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "small book",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "folheto"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "small book",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "panfleto"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "small book",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "livro de cordel"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "chapbook"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chapbook"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Formerly sold by chapmen; see the etymology there, and book.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chapbooks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      "expansion": "chapbook (plural chapbooks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "en:Books"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1849 Notices of Fugitive Tracts: And Chap-books Printed at Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Churchyard, Etc\nThis was, till within the last few years, a favourite chapbook in the north of England."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 2]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "For Haines’s chapbook. No-one here to hear.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "2005 Kathryn A. Lowry - The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th Century China\nTwo such examples of slim, chapbook-style collections were both part of larger compendia […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "book",
          "book"
        ],
        [
          "poem",
          "poem"
        ],
        [
          "ballad",
          "ballad"
        ],
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "tract",
          "tract"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "chapbook"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small book",
      "word": "chapbook"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "small book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "livret de colportage"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "small book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "książeczka liryczna"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "small book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "folheto"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "small book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "panfleto"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "small book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "livro de cordel"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chapbook"
}