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Other forms: folios
A folio is an old fashioned kind of book, typically made of large folded sheets of paper. In the 1600s, many of Shakespeare's plays were printed in the form of a folio.
The word folio means "leaf or sheet of paper" in Latin. A folio is made by folding one piece of paper in half — counting each side, this gives you four pages. A larger folio is simply a collection of many folded sheets bound together. In the early days of printing, the fanciest books were folios. Another method was the quarto, with two folds in each sheet and pages that had to be cut open after they were bound.
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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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a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)synonyms: leaftypes:flyleafa blank leaf in the front or back of a bookinterleafa blank leaf inserted between the leaves of a bookpageone side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it containsfull pagesomething that covers an entire pagehalf pagesomething that covers (the top or bottom) half of a pagerectoright-hand pageversoleft-hand pagetitle pagea page of a book displaying the title and author and publishersports pageany page in the sports section of a newspapertype of:
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the system of numbering pagessynonyms: page number, pagination, pagingtype of:numbera concept of quantity involving zero and units
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