The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bookholder
Bookholder \Book"hold`er\, n.
A prompter at a theater. [Obs.]
--Beau. & Fl.A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.
Wiktionary
bookholder
n. 1 A support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying. 2 (context obsolete English) A prompter at a theatre.
Usage examples of "bookholder".
Gasquine called, and nodded to the bookholder, who hastened to turn a massive minute glass in its polished stand.
She reached for the buttons, hastily rearranging them, and Eslingen looked away quickly as the bookholder called time.