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
Example Sentences
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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
It wasn’t until they started comparing stories, pinning flyleaf notices to lampposts, that the scale of the problem became clear.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2020
There on the flyleaf of the beautiful “Safe & Sound,” her 1988 novel, is an inscription.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2015
Now, for the third time since he had returned from the hospital that day, he opened the woman’s book and read the brief inscription on the flyleaf.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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
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
To think these laughable flyleaves might have any effect!
From Time Magazine Archive
I probably read my favorite psalm, the 45th; but most of my time I spent writing, on the flyleaves, psalms of my own.
From A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography by Beers, Clifford Whittingham
Take the sections of the flyleaves on top, which should be notched the same as the saw cuts in the book sections, and place them against the strings in the frame.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
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