flyleaf
Americannoun
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flyleaves
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of flyleaf
1825–35; fly 2 (noun, in combination: something fastened by the edge) + leaf
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After trimming the nib, the scribe would usually test the pen on a blank piece of parchment or flyleaf to make sure that his letters were legible.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
In 1993, his lawyers succeeded in forcing the publisher of a book by Harry Hurt III, “Lost Tycoon,” to add an explanation of the encounter on the book’s flyleaf.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2022
Perhaps in the 16th Century it was already hard to read, or the flyleaf was loose?
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2020
It was a children’s book, first given to my father, according to a faded flyleaf inscription, by two aunts who had bought it in Honolulu in 1939.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
Nat opened one of the books and read the name on the flyleaf.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Coupled with the book's status as an enduring object, it makes sense that readers felt drawn to write their names or doodle in the margins and flyleaves of these books.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
To think these laughable flyleaves might have any effect!
From Time Magazine Archive
As evidence they introduced 1,000 Bibles with family histories on the flyleaves, old letters, snuff boxes, muskets, a muzzle-loading shotgun, other heirlooms.
From Time Magazine Archive
The reference was to a prisoner at Magdeburg who received a book which contained messages written on the flyleaves in lemon juice.
From Lafayette by Martha Foote Crow
Many such naïve and explicit records as that on the drawing which Raphael sent him are to be found in the flyleaves of books and on the margins of prints and drawings, his possessions.
From Albert Durer by T. Sturge Moore
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