ˈscrap-book
[f. scrap n.1]
a. A blank book in which pictures, newspaper cuttings, and the like are pasted for preservation. Hence occas. as the title of a printed book of miscellaneous contents.
| 1825 (title) The Scrap Book, or a selection of..anecdotes. 1854 Thackeray Leech's Pict. (1869) 328 Great swollen scrap⁓books,..full of the comic prints of grandpapa's time. 1881 Lang Library 2 An assortment of broadsheet ballads and scrapbooks, bought in boyhood, was the nucleus of Scott's library. |
b. transf. A loosely-constructed documentary review programme, normally covering a particular year or period, presented on radio by the B.B.C.
| 1933 Radio Times 8 Dec. 719/2 Scrapbook for 1913. Ibid. 740/2 This is no history book—just a scrapbook of cherished fragments. 1939 H. Nicolson Diary 3 Dec. (1967) 47 After the news there is a B.B.C. scrap-book for 1910. 1947 L. MacNeice Dark Tower 69 Features..have..a great diversity of form. Some of them are as loosely constructed as scrap-books. 1959 Listener 23 July 150/2 The programmes..were almost identical exercises in the well-proven genre of biographical scrap-book. 1972 P. Black Biggest Aspidistra in World i. v. 43 The famous Scrapbooks, in popularity and appreciation the most successful dramatised radio series ever produced in Britain..began in 1933... The title Scrapbook first appeared in Radio Times in 1932. |
c. attrib.
| 1897 H. James Spoils of Poynton i. 5 Trumpery ornament and scrapbook art. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! i. 75 Diaghileff..was able to invest with a revolutionary glamour the scrapbook mentality which in his later years he exploited with so marked a success. |
Hence ˈscrap-book v., to place in a scrap-book;hence ˈscrap-booking vbl. n.
| 1879 ‘Mark Twain’ Let. 12 Nov. (1917) I. 369 Put the enclosed scraps in the drawer and I will scrap-book them. 1881 ― Tramp abroad xlvi, I scrap-booked these reports during several months. 1883 North Star 25 Oct. 3/2 We trust that our wage-earning readers especially will scrap-book these Letters, for after-study. c 1898 ‘Mark Twain’ Autobiogr. (1924) I. 139 He usually postponed the scrap-booking until Sunday. |