Definition of "visiting-book" []

• A book containing a list of names of persons who are to be called upon or who have called. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She will be somebody hereafter: she was nobody in Harley Street: that is, everybody else in her visiting-book, take the names all round, was as good as she."
• "And Maria was bound, by superior pride and great care in the composition of her visiting-book, to make up for the defects of birth, and felt it her duty to see her father and sister as little as possible."
• "The Bishopess of Ealing was shocked beyond expression; the Bishop went and wrote his name down in the visiting-book at Gaunt House that very day."