Meanings
bookshelved1
- not comparableHaving a bookshelf or bookshelves.
Add an appealing small house — but bigger than it looks — with its bookshelved study, sunny panelled living room, chair-railed dining room, and large eat-in country kitchen.
1967 November 9, K[arl] M. Light Real Estate, “Tiger’s Lair!”, in Town Topics, Princeton, N.J., →OCLC, page 21, column 51 more example
She reloaded by moonlight, gathered the tripod, and backed across the street, scouting the library for a good angle. She found one and set up. The white clapboard siding was black-banded in the overhead moonlight; the windows showed bookshelved walls lighted faintly from within.
1972, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives, New York, N.Y.: Random House, Inc., →ISBN, page 52
bookshelved2
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of bookshelve
Origin
bookshelved · adjective
From bookshelf + -ed, with -f changed to -v- as in the plural bookshelves.
Full word history & related roots →bookshelved · verb
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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