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Yellow-covered adj. Covered or bound in yellow paper.

Yellow-covered literature, cheap sensational novels and trashy magazines; formerly so called from the usual color of their covers. (Colloq. U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Yellow-covered'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... "Smoking and yellow-covered novels are worse than any amount of hullabaloo; and the quietest boy is often a poor, ignorant victim, whose life is being drained out of him before it is well begun. If mothers could only see the series of books that are sold behind counters to boarding-school boys, whom nobody ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 • Various