flyleaf
noun
a blank leaf in the front or the back of a book.
flyleaves
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pluralof flyleaf.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Clifford Whittingham Beers
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
