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   • What a row was kicked up over Miss Braddon's "Octoroon," and what an impossible yellowback it was! Yellowback definition: (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.. See examples of YELLOWBACK used in a sentence.

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   What is a yellow-back?

   • A yellow-back is a type of cheap fiction novel published in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. They were also called 'mustard-plaster' novels. Yellow-Backs were developed in the 1840s to compete with the 'penny dreadful'. They were marketed as entertaining reading.

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   What is a yellowback book?

   • (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper. a gold certificate. You saw what that fellow flashed, a twenty dollar yellowback, a word to Skippy and the Kennedy would follow. What a row was kicked up over Miss Braddon's "Octoroon," and what an impossible yellowback it was!

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   What is a 20 dollar yellowback?

   • a gold certificate. You saw what that fellow flashed, a twenty dollar yellowback, a word to Skippy and the Kennedy would follow. What a row was kicked up over Miss Braddon's "Octoroon," and what an impossible yellowback it was! Yellowback definition: (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper..

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   Yellowback definition: (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.. See examples of YELLOWBACK used in a sentence.

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   yellowback in British English. (ˈjɛləʊˌbæk ) noun. 1. a cheap, sensational novel bound in yellow fabric or paper. 2. a U.S. dollar having a yellow coloured back. 3. a lemon coloured fish.

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   noun. 1. : gold certificate. 2. : a cheap and usually sensational novel. especially : one sold in yellow board or paper covers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 3. : a freshwater mussel (Lampsilis anodontoides) of the Mississippi valley and southeastern U.S. having a heavy shell covered with yellow periostracum and highly valued for ...

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   Define yellowback. yellowback synonyms, yellowback pronunciation, yellowback translation, English dictionary definition of yellowback. n 1. a cheap, sensational novel bound in yellow fabric or paper 2. a U.S. dollar having a yellow coloured back 3. a lemon coloured fish Collins English...

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   A yellow-back or yellowback is a cheap novel which was published in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. They were occasionally called "mustard-plaster" novels. [1] Developed in the 1840s to compete with the "penny dreadful", yellow-backs were marketed as entertaining reading.

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   yellowback, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary

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   The first definition of yellowback in the dictionary is a cheap, sensational novel bound in yellow fabric or paper. Other definition of yellowback is a U.S. dollar having a yellow coloured back. Yellowback is also a lemon coloured fish.