Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sheet of paper with a business name and address printed at the top, used for billing costs or charges.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A printed paper containing the name, address, and business of a person or firm, etc., with space below for adding an account in writing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A printed form used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts.

Etymologies

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bill +‎ head

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Examples

  • I watched Paul Young while he wrote the required information onto another billhead provided by the barman and wondered vaguely why he didn't carry business cards to save himself that sort of bother.

    PROOF Francis, Dick 1984

  • Not an invoice, not a letter, not a billhead showing.

    PROOF Francis, Dick 1984

  • I got him to itemise every bottle on a Silver Moondance billhead and sign it 'in full', and then I paid him by credit card, tucking away the receipts.

    PROOF Francis, Dick 1984

  • Carey produced the old-fashioned billhead with its pencilled message: Cant mannage it young Ern will have to.

    Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956

  • Alleyn drew from his coat pocket the copper-plate billhead with its pencilled message.

    Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956

  • Brushes and all kinds of Alligator Tooth Jewelry -- such is the wording of the billhead handed me by Mr. Johnson, the only colored man in the country who owns a store where all kinds of curiosities are made and sold.

    Evidences of Progress Among Colored People G. F. Richings 1902

  • From the association's secretary each member received a package of more or less gorgeous blanks, printed like a billhead, on handsome paper, properly ruled in columns; a bill-head worded something like this --

    Life on the Mississippi 1870

  • My search results produced an old bookseller's billhead for sale.

    ephemera 2009

  • a billhead, on handsome paper, properly ruled in columns; a bill-head worded something like this --

    Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

  • a billhead, on handsome paper, properly ruled in columns; a bill-head worded something like this --

    Life on the Mississippi, Part 3. Mark Twain 1872

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