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   What does yellowback mean?

   • 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 yellowback novel?

   • 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. Developed in the 1840s to compete with the "penny dreadful", yellow-backs were marketed as entertaining reading.

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   What is the meaning of yellow & back1?

   • [1790–1800; yellow + back1] This word is first recorded in the period 1790–1800. Other words that entered English at around the same time include: backhanded, cannibalism, gelatin, infiltration, standby 3 meanings: 1. a cheap, sensational novel bound in yellow fabric or paper 2. a U.S. dollar having a yellow coloured back 3. a....

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   What is a yellow back fish?

   • The fisher-men having caught a quantity of large fish, I discovered one among them..the yellow-back …thus called from its colour, which almost resembles that of a lemon. The Yellow-back is often brought to market at Paramaribo, and attracts the attention of new comers, as this fish is of a saffron colour on the upper part, but the under is white.

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   What was a yellow back book called?

   • They were occasionally called "mustard-plaster" novels. Developed in the 1840s to compete with the "penny dreadful", yellow-backs were marketed as entertaining reading. They had brightly coloured covers, often printed by chromoxylography, that were attractive to a new class of readers, thanks to the spread of education and rail travel.

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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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   3 meanings: 1. a cheap, sensational novel bound in yellow fabric or paper 2. a U.S. dollar having a yellow coloured back 3. a.... Click for more definitions.

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   The meaning of YELLOWBACK is gold certificate. a freshwater mussel (Lampsilis anodontoides) of the Mississippi valley and southeastern U.S. having a heavy shell covered ...

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   A yellow-back is a cheap novel which was published in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. They were occasionally called "mustard-plaster" novels. Developed in the 1840s to compete with the "penny dreadful", yellow-backs were marketed as entertaining reading. They had brightly coloured covers, often printed by chromoxylography, that ...

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   Yellow-back. 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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   What does the noun yellowback mean? There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun yellowback , one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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   Define yellowback. yellowback synonyms, yellowback pronunciation, yellowback translation, English dictionary definition of yellowback. n 1. a cheap, sensational novel ...