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incunable

incunable

English

Noun

incunable (plural incunables)

  1. A very early printed book, specifically one printed before 1501; an incunabulum.
    • 1976, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Something Nasty in the Woodshed, Penguin, published 2001, page 435:
      Nerciat rubbed shoulders with D.H. Lawrence, the Large Paper set of de Sade (Illustrated by Austin Osman Spare) jostled an incunable Hermes Trismegistus, and ten different editions of L'Histoire d'O were piquant bedfellows to De la Bodin's Démonomanie des Sorciers.

Translations


French

Adjective

incunable m, f (plural incunables)

  1. Which dates from the early days of printing

Noun

incunable m (plural incunables)

  1. incunabulum

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /inkuˈnaβle/

Noun

incunable m (plural incunables)

  1. incunable, incunabulum