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double spread

noun

any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
a picture, advertisement, etc., occupying two facing pages.

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Origin of double spread

First recorded in 1955–60
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British Dictionary definitions for double spread

double spread

noun

printing two facing pages of a publication treated as a single unit
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