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octavo

noun

Etymology

From Latin octavo. Doublet of octave, oitava, and ochava.

  1. borrowed from octavo

Definitions

  1. A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to…

    A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves.

  2. A book of octavo pages.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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