Dust jacket

/dˈʌst dʒˈakɪt/

/dˈʌst dʒˈækɪt/

[noun]

Dust jacket

[NOUN]

a removable paper or plastic cover that is wrapped around the outside of a hardcover book

synonyms : book jacket

dust cover

dust wrapper

Examples

1. Does it need a dust jacket?

2. Even though the dust jacket blurbs said this has the latest census data, if everyone read this book, the world would be a better place--

3. Believing that books with a person of color on the cover will not sell, publishers will instead put a white face or a silhouette or an ambiguously-raced face on the dust jacket of a book whose protagonist is not white.