foolscap

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She took a sheet of foolscap, and made it into four sheets of note paper.

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  1. noun Chiefly British A sheet of writing or printing paper measuring approximately 13 by 16 inches.
  2. noun A fool's cap.

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  • It was no larger than a sheet of foolscap, a rendering of the shadow of a female in graphite and chalk. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 03 - March 2007 (v1.0)
  • He lit his pipe and applied himself to the sheet of foolscap, at the top of which Nigel had typed in capital letters MURDER AT THE UNICORN Circumstances. —  Enter A Murderer - Ngaio Marsh - Roderick Alleyn 02: 1935
  • The butler reluctantly unfolded the plain sheet of foolscap, his pudgy hands trembling ever so slightly. —  YoursUntilDawn
  • Corinne wrote the minutes of that meeting on yellow foolscap, then entered them into her Excel spreadsheet afterwards. —  The Toque
  • In Germany (and some other continental countries) there is a yellow plaque - not larger than a 'foolscap' (A 4 size) sheet of paper - displayed at the entrance to every building site. —  Irish Blogs
 

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  1. From the watermark of a fool's cap with bells originally used for this paper.
 

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/ˈfulzkæp/
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