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noun
Inset  n.  
1.
That which is inserted or set in; an insertion.
2.
(Bookbinding) One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as:
(a)
A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; also called offcut.
(b)
A page or pages of advertisements inserted.





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"Inset" Quotes from Famous Books



... clean breast of it to me. He'd married in two different names before he married me, and both wives are still living. He went to Brighton on Saturday to marry one more. Because he wants to get his picture, as the peer convicted of trigamy, on the back page of the 'Daily Mail,' with the fourth wife inset. So you see what has happened. It was my fault, but that's how I come to be in the pariah class. Can you bear ...
— If Winter Don't - A B C D E F Notsomuchinson • Barry Pain
... repulsive-looking person I have ever set eyes on in my life—a young man, thin, and of less than medium height, flashily dressed in cheap clothes, with patent boots and brilliant necktie. His cheeks were sallow; and his eyes, deeply inset, were closer together than any I ...
— An Amiable Charlatan • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... hanging at one end of the hall is the top of the reputed Round Table of King Arthur, painted in radiating white and green sections, with a portrait of the famous king inset, crowned and robed, and the Tudor rose in the centre, while around the circumference are the names of the knights in old black-letter characters. Doubtful though it is that the table is the actual one that figures in the Arthurian legends, yet it is certainly of ...
— Winchester • Sidney Heath


Words linked to "Inset" :   dicky, enclose, icon, dickey, ikon, garment, piece of cloth, piece of material, artefact, dickie, picture, gusset, stick in, image, insert


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