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counterfoil

noun

Etymology

From counter- + foil.

  1. derived from folia
  2. derived from fueille
  3. derived from fueille
  4. inherited from foyle
  5. prefixed as counterfoil — “counter + foil”

Definitions

  1. the part of a cheque that is retained in the chequebook as a record

    the part of a cheque that is retained in the chequebook as a record; a stub

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for counterfoil. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA