Crossword-Solution: BIBLIOTAPH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bibliotaph | n. | Alt. of Bibliotaphist |
We have 1 clue for the answer “BIBLIOTAPH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hoarder of books. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BIBLIOTAPH (5)
IVES THE BIBLIOTAPH AND OTHER PEOPLE THE BIBLIOTAPH: A PORTRAIT NOT WHOLLY IMAGINARY A popular and fairly orthodox opinion concerning book-collectors is that their vices are many, their virtues of a negative sort, and their ways altogether past finding out.
The bibliotaph buries books; not literally, but sometimes with as much effect as if he had put his books underground.
The dog-in-the-manger bibliotaph is the worst; he uses his books but little himself, and allows others to use them not at all.
Never reads 'em because he hardly ever comes here.' It became possible to identify the Bibliotaph of the country store with a certain mature youth who some time since 'gave his friends the slip, chose land-travel or seafaring,' and has not returned to build the town house with proper library.
The Bibliotaph was mightily pleased with both: the one, he said, appealed to him æsthetically, the other dietetically.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1965).