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folio

[foh-lee-oh] / ˈfoʊ liˌoʊ /


NOUN
leaf
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG




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

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 7, 2025

Another folio edition and two smaller original copies of Henry IV Part One and Othello will also be on display.

From BBC Apr. 24, 2023

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

From Washington Post Apr. 21, 2023

This work, “Muhammad’s Call to Prophecy and the First Revelation,” a folio from a Majma’ al-Tavarikh, has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From New York Times Jan. 8, 2023

Zora made me sit at the kitchen table while she brought it out like a librarian with a Shakespeare folio.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Curated by historian Sudeshna Guha, the exhibition centres on folios from The People of India, the influential eight-volume photographic survey published between 1868 and 1875.

From BBC Feb. 20, 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

A photo in an earlier version of this story of folios from an ancient Quran was presented upside down.

From Washington Post Feb. 21, 2023

His satchel is stuffed with sealed letters, scouting reports from surrounding outposts, receipts of sale, and several leather folios engraved with the crest of local magistrates, bound for the Capital King of Samarkand.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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 Slater, J. Herbert (John Herbert)

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 Adam, Paul




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