Definition of "bookmobile" [bookmobile]

• A truck, trailer, or van equipped to serve as a mobile lending library. (noun)

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• "The bookmobile, which is used to deliver books by the DeKalb County Library, did not clear a breezeway at Wills Creet Village assisted living that caused damage to the vehicle."
• "He calls the bookmobile "an important part of the community.""
• "Tolstoy and the Purple Chair covers themes ranging from sorrow and loss to family and comfort, to remembrance and hope; it spans the time from my first visit to a bookmobile at age three across the decades to years later when I read a book a day, every day, for one year; and it includes real-life characters (family and friends) and the wonderful (or awful) characters I met in books."