accordion-fold

[uh-kawr-dee-uhn-fohld]

verb (used with object)

1. to fold into pleats resembling the bellows of an accordion.

   to make a fan by accordion-folding a sheet of paper.

Example Sentences

That includes “Every Building on the Sunset Strip,” an accordion-fold book 25 feet long that shows what the title says.

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The Morgan makes a virtue of his multimedia omnivorousness, especially in the masterpiece at this show’s heart: “The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jeanne of France,” an unconstrained and nearly unpunctuated travelogue in verse from 1913, self-published on a 6.5-foot-tall accordion-fold booklet, framed by the parti-colored abstract bursts of the great French-Ukrainian artist Sonia Delaunay-Terk.

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Since it consists partly of handmade accordion-fold books, landscape painter Freya Grand’s“Journeys” slots naturally into Terzo Piano’s bookshop.

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Many are accordion-fold constructions such as Gloria Patton’s “Nexus,” eclectically decorated pockets that hold additional artworks on individual sheets.

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“Every Building on the Sunset Strip,” published in 1966, is both a photographic feat and physical pun: The book is a strip unto itself, a single accordion-fold page, 27 feet long, featuring a panorama of the north and south sides of the Sunset Strip.

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