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copybook

noun

  1. book containing educational examples to reproduce
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From copy + book.

  1. A student's exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied.

    She whipped up the cards on the floor, extinguished an unglobed candle, and ruffled open the pages of Claude's copybook.

  2. A notebook containing blank, often lined, pages for writing answers.
  3. A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from a shared library; boilerplate.