"dust jacket" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dust jackets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dust jacket (plural dust jackets)
  1. (printing, publishing) The detachable paper cover of a book; used to protect the binding, and to provide blurb. Wikipedia link: dust jacket Categories (topical): Printing, Publishing Synonyms: bookjacket, dustcover Translations (detachable protective cover of a book): boekomslag (Afrikaans), মলাট (molaṭ) [broadly] (Bengali), калъфка (kalǎfka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), sobrecoberta [feminine] (Catalan), camisa [feminine] (Catalan), 書皮 (Chinese Mandarin), 书皮 (shūpí) (Chinese Mandarin), boekomslag (Dutch), bókakápa [feminine] (Faroese), suojakansi (Finnish), jaquette [feminine] (French), liseuse [feminine] (French), Schutzumschlag [masculine] (German), Buchumschlag [masculine] (German), borító (Hungarian), védőborító (Hungarian), könyvborító (Hungarian), kápa [feminine] (Icelandic), カバ- (kabā) (Japanese), obwoluta [feminine] (Polish), sobrecapa [feminine] (Portuguese), суперобло́жка (superoblóžka) [feminine] (Russian), sobrecubierta [feminine] (Spanish), forro [masculine] (Spanish), skyddsomslag [neuter] (Swedish), pabalat (Tagalog), balot-aklat (Tagalog), siaced lwch [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-dust_jacket-en-noun-5iFYi8mx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations Topics: media, printing, publishing

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      "sense": "detachable protective cover of a book",
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      "word": "védőborító"
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      "sense": "detachable protective cover of a book",
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