‘Great bore, Christmas, isn’t it? All the people one hates most gathered together in the name of goodwill and all that.’
Freddy Arbuthnot to Lord Peter Wimsey
Dorothy Sayers, Strong Poison (orig, pub. 1930), ch. 12
commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement.
OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.
commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.
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