folio verso

[ foh-lee-oh -vur-soh; Latin foh-lee-oh -wer-soh ]

/ ˈfoʊ liˌoʊ ˈvɜr soʊ; Latin ˈfoʊ liˌoʊ ˈwɛr soʊ /

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noun

the back of the page; verso (opposed to folio recto).

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Origin of folio verso

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Like yacht and horse racing, wine making is a wildly expensive proposition, says Michael Mondavi, founder of Folio Wines.
Billionaire Divorcee's Happy Ending|Sandra McElwaine|January 24, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Now if we double the last 16, it gives us the date of the second Folio in 32 and 32 reversed gives us the date of the first Folio.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
It was a middle sized folio, of 1,090 pages and sold for three rix dollars a copy.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
He visited us at Thorpe several times, and was unusually well and in good spirits, with sketchbook or folio always in hand.
East Anglia|J. Ewing Ritchie

Folio volumes with copper-plates have been written on it; and are not yet all pasted in bandboxes, or slit into spills.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. I. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
The fourth Folio appeared in 1685 or 21 years after the third Folio.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)