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hornbook
noun
A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read.<ref name="ADPM-def">The
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American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking
by W.W. Pasko (1894)</ref>
1696
, William Shakespeare,
Love's Labour's Lost
: Moth: Yes, yes. He teaches boys the .
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1828
, Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson,
A Dictionary of the English Language
, page 351,
:
HORNBOOK
, (horn'-book) n. The first book of children, covered with horn to keep it unsoiled.
1913
, Katharine Lee Bates, Lilla Weed,
Shakespeare: Selective Bibliography and Biographical Notes
, page 41
: By way of the Shakespeare would have learned to read, ".
1999
, Nigel Wheale,
Writing and Society: Literacy, Print, and Politics in Britain, 1590-1660
, page 43
: Infants learned their letters from a , a square of wood shaped like a table-tennis bat on which were pasted the alphabet, syllables and the Lord's Prayer ".
2002
, Nila Banton Smith,
American Reading Instruction
, page 14
: The is the first piece of instructional material specifically mentioned in American records.
A legal textbook that gives a basic overview of a particular area of law.
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