half binding

1. 1.

   book binding in which the spine and part of the sides are bound in one material and the rest in another

   Broaderbinding

Questions about half binding

What does half binding mean?

half binding means "book binding in which the spine and part of the sides are bound in one material and the rest in another".

Is half binding a common word?

half binding 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.