scrapbook

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a book in which photographs, clippings, notes, and other memorabilia are collected and arranged

   Emmeline kept obituaries and newspaper stories in her scrapbook.

2. 2
   noun

   a digital collection arranged like a traditional scrapbook

   The family shared an online scrapbook of the reunion.

3. 3
   verb

   to make scrapbooks or preserve material in a scrapbook

   She scrapbooks photographs from every family holiday.

A compound of scrap + book, recorded in the nineteenth century for blank books used to preserve newspaper cuttings, pictures, and other scraps. The verb and digital sense developed from the physical album.

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