Meaning of incunable | Babel Free
ɪnˈkjuːnəbəlDefinitions
Livre imprimé aux débuts de l’imprimerie. Note d’usage : par convention, on considère ainsi les documents imprimés avant 1501 ; dans la pratique, on inclut aussi les documents du début du XVIᵉ siècle.
Equivalents
Examples
“Nerciat rubbed shoulders with D.H. Lawrence, the Large Paper set of de Sade (Illustrated by Austin Osman Spare) jostled an incunable Hermes Trismegistus, and ten different editions of L'Histoire d'O were piquant bedfellows to De la Bodin's Démonomanie des Sorciers.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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