three-quarter binding

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   the spine and much of the sides are a different material from the rest of the cover

   Broaderbinding

Questions about three-quarter binding

What does three-quarter binding mean?

three-quarter binding means "the spine and much of the sides are a different material from the rest of the cover".

Is three-quarter binding a common word?

three-quarter 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.