bouquiniste or bouquinist

๐Ÿ“– Definitions

noun

A dealer in old and used books.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Usage Examples

โ€œHeywood Hillโ€™s boxes of books, with their blue-and-white address labels, still offer year-round bounty to customers all over the world, but competition from Amazon, an online bookseller, has forced the fashionable bouquiniste to reinvent itself. Under its new owner, Mitfordโ€™s nephew the Duke of Devonshire, it has quietly become a leading purveyor of bespoke libraries.โ€ For the Person Who Has Everything; The Economist (London, UK); Dec 20, 2014.
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