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Yellow-covered   Listen
adjective
Yellow-covered  adj.  Covered or bound in yellow paper.
Yellow-covered literature, cheap sensational novels and trashy magazines; formerly so called from the usual color of their covers. (Colloq. U. S.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Yellow-covered" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Prince of Wales had likened unto a dream of Lucullus. Within the kitchen were signs of disorder. Chairs were upset; the table was lying flat on its back, with its four legs held rigidly up in the air; the kitchen library, consisting of a copy of Marie Antoinette's Dream-Book; a yellow-covered novel bearing the title Little Lucy; or, The Kitchen-maid who Became a Marchioness; and Sixty Soups, by One who Knows, lay strewn about the room, the Dream-Book sadly torn, and Little Lucy ...
— The Water Ghost and Others • John Kendrick Bangs



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