dust jacket

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   a paper jacket for a book; a jacket on which promotional information is usually printed

   Synonymsbook jacketdust coverdust wrapper

   Broaderjacket

Questions about dust jacket

What does dust jacket mean?

dust jacket means "a paper jacket for a book; a jacket on which promotional information is usually printed".

What is another word for dust jacket?

Close synonyms include book jacket, dust cover, dust wrapper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dust jacket a common word?

dust jacket is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.