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Folio

noun
(pl. folios)
1.
The system of numbering pages.  Synonyms: page number, pagination, paging.
2.
A sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book).  Synonym: leaf.
3.
A book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages.





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"Folio" Quotes from Famous Books



... possessed in such a way that she was continually blaspheming. She was indicted for blasphemy, fined, and sentenced to stand in the pillory. (For the graphic titles of these contradictory pamphlets and of a folio broadside on the same subject, ...
— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein
... dark, and a shaded burner hangs by a canvas chair in the kitchen. The wind is booming in gusts, the dogs howl occasionally in the veranda, but the night-watchman and his pipe are at peace with all men. He has discarded a heavy folio for a light romance, while the hours scud by, broken only by the observations. The romance is closed, and he steals to his bunk with a hurricane lamp and finds a bundle of letters. He knows them ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson
... large folio packet into my hand, and went below. I opened it: it was a copy of a letter demanding a court-martial upon me, with a long list of the charges preferred by him. I was stupefied, not so much at his asking for a court-martial, but at the conviction of the impossibility of my ...
— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat
... little book, Volumes in Folio as he quaintly calls it, is full of dainty verse and delicate fancy. ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde
... LAEVIGATUS (Benth. MS.); subglaber glaucescens, foliolis linearibus v. lineari-cuneatis vix acutatis, pedunculis folio longioribus 3—6- floris, calycis subsessilis appresse pubescentis dentibus setaceo- acuminatis tubo suo paullo longioribus, legumine ...
— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell


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