centerfold

[ sen-ter-fohld ]

noun

1. center spread.
2. a gatefold bound into the center of a magazine or book signature.
3. a photograph of a woman or man in a nude or seminude pose appearing on a magazine centerfold.
4. the person in such a photograph.

Word History and Origins

Origin of centerfold¹

An Americanism dating back to 1950–55; center + fold ¹

Example Sentences

Marston had died earlier that year, and the series passed to writers who did away with much of the comic’s feminist messaging, including a regular centerfold feature chronicling the lives of influential women.

From Washington Post

They were the opposite of the soft, eroticized centerfold models in Playboy, an iconic “gentleman’s magazine” that Mellaart certainly would have encountered in the 1950s and ’60s.

From Popular-Science

He married a Playboy centerfold and had two sons, the humbly-named Thor and Odin.

From The Daily Beast

At 36, and almost six feet tall, Kohrs looks like he just stepped out of a GQ centerfold.

From The Daily Beast

While BFF Decker landed the cover, Teigen was named “rookie of the year,” launching her career as a smoldering centerfold.

From The Daily Beast

When Kluge laid eyes on the exotic former centerfold, he was smitten and, before long, divorced.

From The Daily Beast

The senator was unhappy with websites hosting his infamous nude centerfold photograph.

From The Daily Beast

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