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- noun Alternative spelling of
fore edge .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved; the part opposite the spine
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Examples
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It would have helped to have given the chapter numbers in running heads at the book's foredge.
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One interesting factor that influenced the AHD's format (double-column page with a narrower foredge column devoted to illustrations), which the reviewer may not know of, was the use of automatic typsetting: it is extremely difficult (and expensive) to program a computer to set run-arounds (the insertion of an illustration into a block of text so that the text is run around it).
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I love book terms: foredge, foot, spine, head, headband, endpaper, flyleaf, pastedown, colophon, frontispiece, bastard title, font, the finials of fonts, type box, gutter.
On Writing: An Abecedarian | The Hudson Review Priscilla Long 2023
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