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octavo

[ok-tey-voh, -tah-] / ɒkˈteɪ voʊ, -ˈtɑ- /


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Tres parejas casadas se reúnen para celebrar el décimo octavo aniversario de su matrimonio y lamentan la ausencia de un amigo que fue padrino de las tres bodas.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2020

“Who, indeed, but a woman,” wrote one reviewer, “could have ventured, with the smallest prospect of success, to fill three octavo volumes with the history of a woman’s heart?”

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2016

They would publish two octavo volumes at a time, each about 200 pages long.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2016

En Miami-Dade, los exámenes comenzarán de nuevo para los grados octavo y noveno.

From Washington Times • Mar. 5, 2015

However, demand was fully re-established in the decade 1600-1609, and not just for the new more complex commentaries such as that of Clavius, published in fat quartos, but also for cheap octavo editions.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton