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pattern books

pattern books is the plural of pattern book.

Meaning of pattern book

Noun

pattern book (plural pattern books)

  1. A book containing samples of patterns and designs of cloth or wallpaper.
  2. A book of architectural designs.
    • The idea of standard designs is as old as Brunel's pattern-book series of Tudor and Italianate designs for the Great Western Railway in the 1840s.2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 43

Questions about pattern books

What is pattern books the plural of?
Pattern books is the plural of pattern book.

Words near pattern books in the dictionary

  1. pattern baldness
  2. pattern bargaining
  3. pattern board
  4. pattern boards
  5. pattern book
  6. pattern books
  7. pattern box
  8. pattern boxes
  9. pattern budget
  10. pattern budgets
  11. pattern card

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pattern books (page history and authors); pattern book (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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