"blurb" meaning in Anglais

See blurb in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: \blɜː(ɹ)b\ Forms: blurbs [plural]
  1. Quatrième de couverture.
    Sense id: fr-blurb-en-noun-I8lNNmTg Categories (other): Lexique en anglais de la bibliothéconomie
  2. Courte description d’un livre, film, œuvre musicale, etc. écrite et utilisée à des fins promotionnelles.
    Sense id: fr-blurb-en-noun-fR0ugJuv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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