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Flyleaf

noun
(pl. flyleaves)
1.
A blank leaf in the front or back of a book.





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"Flyleaf" Quotes from Famous Books



... the bulwark of a vessel off the African coast, after I had been at sea long enough to appreciate even the fancy of a gallop on the back of a certain good horse 'York' there in my stable at home." The poem was written in pencil on the flyleaf of Bartoli's Simboli, a favorite book of his. Browning says that there was no sort of historical foundation for the story, but the Pacification of Ghent in 1576 has been suggested as an appropriate background. ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning
... the earliest education of George was received, for in an old volume of the Bishop of Exeter's Sermons his name is written, and on a flyleaf a note in the handwriting of a relative who inherited the library states that this "autograph of George Washington's name is believed to be the earliest specimen of his handwriting, when he was probably not more than eight or nine years old." ...
— The True George Washington [10th Ed.] • Paul Leicester Ford


Words linked to "Flyleaf" :   folio, leaf


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