Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A blank or specially printed leaf at the beginning or end of a book.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A blank leaf at the beginning or end of a book; the blank leaf of a folded circular, program, or the like.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. an unprinted leaf at the beginning or end of a book, circular, programme, etc.
- n. A blank leaf in the front of back or a book.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a blank leaf in the front or back of a book
Examples
“| Reply lies, flyleaf is awesome, That was a bad remix of the song.”
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“On the flyleaf were his initials R.D., the letters of the handkerchief, and underneath C.D. freshly written.”
“On the flyleaf was a Greek elegiac couplet in which Dover had managed (1) to use in an apposite and humorous way a Greek word whose meaning we had discussed in a co-authored article, disputing its translation with John Finnis; (2) to express pleasure at the collaboration; and (3) to compare the "daring" outspokenness of our article to that of his own memoir-all with not only impeccable meter and style, but also graciousness, wit, and elegance.”
“Inside the flyleaf was a white envelope with the name Terry written on it, in Ernie’s appalling script.”
“For reasons that gradually become clear, these rules call to mind the "general resolves" scribbled on the flyleaf of a Hopalong Cassidy book by the young title character in the "The Great Gatsby.”
“The front free flyleaf was gone, removing half of that double page spread.”
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“I picked it up and saw that the front free flyleaf (or FFF, a term I had never heard) was gone exposing the title page when you open up the book.”
“In his illustrious career, only one academic title seems to have eluded him: scuba-diving instructor at Tufts, a job he sought, he says, because it would have amused him to list the credential on the "flyleaf of my next book.”
“On the flyleaf of the diary found on his body, he had written "My Pledge," vowing to persevere as though "the whole struggle depended on me alone.”
USA Today: Ronald Reagan's note card collection being published
““And you say this”—he flipped to the flyleaf then back to the proffered page—“Dudley Squires met a sticky end?””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flyleaf’.
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The Bindery
A list of bookbinding terms and phrases, for assembling new or repairing/reassembling old books.
perfect binding, animal glue, spine, textblock, polyvinyl acetate, double-fan adhesi..., board, backing, rounding, bone, book cloth, pasteboard and 270 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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zanshin's Words
gargoyle, ennui, paradigm, aardvark, verisimilitude, ghoti, tenacity, nescience, guillemet, squonk, maven, moxie and 210 more...
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Rare Books
Words used in the rare book trade (of which I was once a part). For more about how such books are put together, see hernesheir's excellent The Bindery.
foxing, gilt, headband, bumped, endpaper, leaf, colophon, vellum, laid paper, boards, device, engraving and 168 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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literary pursuits
flyleaf, dogeared, marginalia, chapter, paperback, edition, typeface, blurb, dust jacket, bibliophile, footnote, appendices and 75 more...
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♥
power lines, park bench, lamp post, silhouette, faustian deal, spades, autumn, collarbone, road trip, sunlight, metacognition, dreamcatcher and 5 more...
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bookish
grimoire, bildungsroman, roman a clef, chapbook, picaresque, codicology, epistolary, colophon, manuscript, memoir, incunabulum, bibliomaniac and 47 more...
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Writing
adoxography, scripturient, well-thumbed, biro, riffle, flyleaf, quire, sheaf
Tweets
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reesetee A blank leaf, sometimes more than one, following the front free endpaper, or at the end of a book where there is not sufficient text to fill out the last few pages. Feb 24, 2008