flyleaf
a blank leaf in the front or the back of a book.
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How to use flyleaf in a sentence
It lay open to the flyleaf, and there was an inscription penned in the fine handwriting that engravers try so hard to copy.
The Lone Ranger Rides | Fran StrikerWould it tire you very much to write it for me in the flyleaf of this Prayer-Book that Mr. Charnock has given me?
The Three Brides | Charlotte M. YongeWith a silver pencil she wrote her name and address on the flyleaf of Persuasion, and gave the book to Rachel.
The Voyage Out | Virginia WoolfI combine here the data of the two lists, calling the list on the flyleaf A and that on the lower margin B.
Henry the Sixth | John BlacmanHeber has inscribed a MS. note on the flyleaf to this effect.
The Confessions of a Collector | William Carew Hazlitt
British Dictionary definitions for flyleaf
/ (ˈflaɪˌliːf) /
the inner leaf of the endpaper of a book, pasted to the first leaf
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