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  • noun Plural form of dustcover.

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Examples

  • The store was unusually quiet, so he could hear the dustcovers of the books slide away from each other, sounding as if they were unzipping rather than peeling away, as he pulled them out.

    Between Places- by G D Ward 2009

  • The store was unusually quiet, so he could hear the dustcovers of the books slide away from each other, sounding as if they were unzipping rather than peeling away, as he pulled them out.

    2009 January 2009

  • On one table, covered with plastic dustcovers, were a comparison microscope and a stereomicroscope, which Nixon employed for analyzing ammunition and firearms.

    Defending the Damned Kevin Davis 2007

  • On one table, covered with plastic dustcovers, were a comparison microscope and a stereomicroscope, which Nixon employed for analyzing ammunition and firearms.

    Defending the Damned Kevin Davis 2007

  • On one table, covered with plastic dustcovers, were a comparison microscope and a stereomicroscope, which Nixon employed for analyzing ammunition and firearms.

    Defending the Damned Kevin Davis 2007

  • On one table, covered with plastic dustcovers, were a comparison microscope and a stereomicroscope, which Nixon employed for analyzing ammunition and firearms.

    Defending the Damned Kevin Davis 2007

  • I believe we have both of those in original - in dustcovers next to the more common versions.

    more synergy 2005

  • The furniture beneath dustcovers looked like a host of politely seated ghosts.

    Sonnet of the Sphinx Diana Killian 2006

  • The Bloomsbury house was too full of ghosts to stop in, even if it hadn't been locked up tight as a drum with dustcovers over everything.

    The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004

  • Samantha didn't ask what it was supposed to be; Ellis was famous for presenting friends with odd knitted things, and Sam already had quite a collection of tea cozies, caps, paperback dustcovers, and various other colorful accessories.

    Hunting Fear Hooper, Kay 2004

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