dust jacket

See also: dustjacket

English

A book with a dust jacket.

Noun

dust jacket (plural dust jackets)

1. (printing, publishing) The detachable paper cover of a book; used to protect the binding, and to provide blurb.

Synonyms

• bookjacket
• dustcover

Translations

detachable protective cover of a book

• Afrikaans: boekomslag
• Bengali: মলাট (bn) (molaṭ) (loosely)
• Bulgarian: калъфка f (kalǎfka)
• Catalan: sobrecoberta f, camisa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 書皮 / 书皮 (zh) (shūpí)

• Dutch: boekomslag (nl)
• Faroese: bókakápa f
• Finnish: suojakansi (fi)
• French: jaquette (fr) f, liseuse (fr) f
• German: Schutzumschlag (de) m, Buchumschlag (de) m
• Hungarian: borító (hu), védőborító, könyvborító (hu)
• Icelandic: kápa (is) f
• Japanese: カバ－ (kabā)
• Polish: obwoluta (pl) f
• Portuguese: sobrecapa (pt) f
• Russian: суперобло́жка (ru) f (superoblóžka)
• Spanish: sobrecubierta (es) f, forro (es) m
• Swedish: skyddsomslag (sv) n
• Tagalog: pabalat, balot-aklat
• Welsh: siaced lwch f