Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An attachment to the desk of a piano or an organ for turning the leaves of a music-book.
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Examples
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“The frigate was short of hands, and they looked upon as a good prize; and in less than a dog-watch we were on the watch-bill, birthed, stationed, hammocks slung, and, moreover, a grinning leaf-turner had us down in Nipcheese’s book, where dead men chew tobacco, Wad.
Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829
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"Wholesome!" cried Boltrope; "let me tell you, my worthy leaf-turner, that if you call such a light diet wholesome, you know but little of salt water and sea-fogs!
The Pilot James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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