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Comic Book Tattoo, a book that can only be described as a tome. 12″x12″x2″, it has dozens of amazing stories based loosely on Tori Amos songs.

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  1. noun One of the books in a work of several volumes.
  2. noun A book, especially a large or scholarly one.

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  • Or if you're not sure that it's pretty incredible, check out Peace: The Biography of a Symbol, peace activist Ken Kolsbun's brand new tome which is deserving of a nice spot right at the center of the coffee table. —  Cool Mom Picks
  • The result feels more like an artist's journal than a retrospective tome, and it's all the more fitting for it. —  State of the Art
  • Comic Book Tattoo, a book that can only be described as a tome. 12″x12″x2″, it has dozens of amazing stories based loosely on Tori Amos songs. —  Planet GNOME
  • The 400-page tome is also sold online in sites such as amazon. com, barnesandnoble. com and buy. com. —  Home
  • It's uncertain whether much will come of the new questions being raised about McCarthy's tome, and the pitcher is already fudging some of the details about his story to make his book more defensible. —  SPORTSbyBROOKS
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tome:   tomes
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos, a cutting, section, from temnein, to cut; see tem- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French tome =Spanish Portuguese Italian tomo, from Latin tomus, a part of a book, a volume, tome, from Greek τόμος, a cut, piece, a part of a book, a volume, tome, section, from τέμνειν, ταμεῖν, cut. From this Greek verb are also ult. English atom, atomy, tmema, tmesis, entoma, entomology, etc., and many words ending in -tome or -tomy, as epitome, anatomy, lithotomy, etc. In fleam it appears reduced to a single letter.
 

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