songbook

plural songbooks

1. A book containing songs.

   Some of the young folks asked Mrs. Long could they have a sing at her home that Sunday afternoon; she readily agreed, telling them to come early, bring their songbooks, and have a good sing.

   2002, Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett, Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom, page 198

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   In uncritical homage to the heyday of Hollywood musicals, Branagh sets the action in a kind of soundstagey Oxbridge (wittily designed by Tim Harvey) and at crucial moments has his cast spin on their heels and croon American songbook standards by Porter, Kern, Gershwin and company instead of launching into sonnets and masques.

   2005, Andrew Dickson, The Rough Guide to Shakespeare: The Plays, the Poems, the Life, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 191

   Wondering how else he passed his time, Winifred surveyed the room again, this time without regard for the monetary value of the things she saw. A box of lutestrings. Five songbooks. But no lute.

   2019, Emerson Kathy Lynn, How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries

2. A repertoire of songs.

   the great American songbook