Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A blank book or album used by collectors for the classification and display of postage- and revenue-stamps.

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Examples

  • If only-so many little boys were inveterate collectors of stamps-if only the uncles or her father had ever been remotely interested in such things, she would probably have found a stamp-album among the old school books with one or two uncanceled specimens among the ones carefully steamed off of the letters that arrived at the house!

    The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • If it was only a new stamp-album, he wanted it hard, and he said so.

    On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller

  • Only, instead of a dormouse and a stamp-album, I chose to purchase smartness.

    Punch or the London Charivari, September 9, 1914 Various 1898

  • P.S. -- If I can get a good stamp-album in town to-day I will send it to you.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916 Various 1898

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