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folio

[foh-lee-oh] / ˈfoʊ liˌoʊ /


NOUN
leaf
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG




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Each fable was printed as a separate folio; the folios are stored in a box designed by the multimedia artist Kiki Smith.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

A dog-eared punk zine flutters near a vellum-bound folio.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 7, 2025

The folio edition was compiled by actors John Heminge and Henry Condell as a tribute and memorial to the writer.

From BBC Apr. 24, 2023

Another chapter patiently explains, with illustrations, the process of printing a large folio.

From Washington Post Apr. 21, 2023

Enormous folio volumes of spurious translations were published.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Each fable was printed as a separate folio; the folios are stored in a box designed by the multimedia artist Kiki Smith.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

First folios have been on exhibit everywhere from the British Museum to the New York Public Library and at least two major book projects will mark the anniversary.

From Seattle Times Oct. 23, 2023

Also included are 11 folios of an early Quran dating back to the late eighth century, an inscribed bronze bowl and a monument dating to the first century B.C.

From Washington Times Feb. 22, 2023

The others artifacts are a bronze bowl, believed to be from the 3rd century, and 11 folios from an 8th-century Quran.

From Washington Post Feb. 21, 2023

Each piece is registered in huge organizational folios that have taken centuries to amass.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

All books for office use are either folioed or paged, i.e., either each page or each sheet gets a consecutive number in order to facilitate reference from the index.

From Practical Bookbinding by Paul Adam

Maccabees, 474 ll. folioed, N. T. 122 leaves, 'A Briefe Table' HH h iii to LLl iii.,

From Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs by J. Herbert (John Herbert) Slater




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