A red book is the record kept of a child's health and growth. Bring the red book.
It holds the weight charts and every vaccination, and it belongs to the parent. Losing the red book means reconstructing the record from four different sources.
1nounred bookThe record kept of a child's health and growth.
“The red book was asked for at every appointment for five years.”
red book is a record.
Red plus book; official volumes bound in red have been called red books in England since the thirteenth century.
From red + book, as a fixed title for various official books from the 15th century, especially the Red Book of the Exchequer, a manuscript volume of the 13th century (OED).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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