pattern book

noun — 2 senses

pattern book

noun

1

A book containing samples of patterns and designs of cloth or wallpaper.

2

A book of architectural designs.

The idea of standard designs is as old as Brunel's pattern-book series of Tudor and Italianate designs for the Great Western Railway in the 1840s.2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 43:

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