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Interesting Words and Expressions – Book-Bosomed

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Book-Bosomed describes someone who carries a book at all times.

Scottish novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott, coined the phrase Book-Bosomed. The phrase first appeared in Scott’s celebrated 1805 poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel.

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