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double spread

American

noun

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

double spread British

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of double spread

First recorded in 1955–60

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