bookhoard

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"BOC HORDE. Sax. [quasi bookhoard.] / A place where books, writing or evidences were kept."
"BOCHORD is, as it were, bookhoard, or a hoard for books, that is, a place where books, writings or evidences are kept."
"From the excessively rare double-folio engraving "Cornu Aurei Typus", an impression of which is in my own bookhoard; another is in the Danish National Library."
"Heathen Bookhoard A Reading List"

Calque of Old English bōchord (“library, collection of books”), equivalent to book + hoard.

bookhoards (plural) book-hoard (alternative)

bookhouse

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