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vigesimo-quarto

[ vahy-jes-uh-moh-kwawr-toh ]

/ vaɪˈdʒɛs ə moʊˈkwɔr toʊ /

Bookbinding.

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noun, adjective plural vi·ges·i·mo-quar·tos,

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Origin of vigesimo-quarto

First recorded in 1860–65

Words nearby vigesimo-quarto

viga, Vigée-Lebrun, vigentennial, vigesimal, vigesimo, vigesimo-quarto, vigia, vigil, vigilance, vigilance committee, vigilant

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How to use vigesimo-quarto in a sentence

John Laurence Berti, a learned monk of Tuscany, died; author of about 20 quarto volumes of divinity.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
In about a fortnight I again launch into the World in the shape of a quarto Volume.
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)|Edward Gibbon
It was a piece of patterned stuff about the size of the quarto page, to which it was fastened by an old-fashioned pin.
A Thin Ghost and Others|M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
One of the latter contains a wood-cut of the Manchester Royal Institution, and eight quarto pages for three-pence.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, Issue 368, May 2, 1829|Various

The remarkable thing is, as regards Hamlet, that they almost all occur in passages not present in the First Quarto.
Montaigne and Shakspere|John M. Robertson