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folios

  • plural
    of folio.
    folio
    noun
    a sheet of paper folded once to make two leaves, or four pages, of a book or manuscript.
  • present tense form
    of folio (3rd person singular).
    folio
    noun
    a sheet of paper folded once to make two leaves, or four pages, of a book or manuscript.

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Each fable was printed as a separate folio; the folios are stored in a box designed by the multimedia artist Kiki Smith.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

First folios have been on exhibit everywhere from the British Museum to the New York Public Library and at least two major book projects will mark the anniversary.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2023

Also included are 11 folios of an early Quran dating back to the late eighth century, an inscribed bronze bowl and a monument dating to the first century B.C.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

More bookshelves wrap around the eastern end of the room, holding nearly the entire collection of the society’s books, everything but the large folios.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2019

To the Athenians, these were a kind of cultural patrimony—something like the original handwritten copies and first folios of Shakespeare might be in England.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan