roxburgh
Speech parts
1. roxburgh - Noun
2. Roxburgh - Proper noun
Meaning
A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.
Source: Webster's dictionaryRelated terms
Examples
Brown, James I, p. 174 Just two months after the Roxburgh fiasco, James called a general council in October 1436 to finance further hostilities through more taxation.
Brown, James I, pp.110–1 Roxburgh Castle which James failed to win back from the English.
“But when the end result includes Borders favourites like ‘gliff’, ‘teesh’, ‘muckle’ and ‘stramash’, I saw that the shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk have a vitality and energy to their language that enhances the telling of Alice’s tale.”
He was imprisoned at Roxburgh for many years afterwards, perhaps until his death some time after 1157.
“Yet they’re telling us they don’t have the money to fund the Roxburgh children’s camps, they haven’t got the money to follow up on their promises of cheaper doctors’ visits.”