Definition of Flyleaf

1. Noun. A blank leaf in the front or back of a book.

Generic synonyms: Folio, Leaf

Definition of Flyleaf

1. Noun. A blank page at the front or back of a book. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flyleaf

1. a blank leaf at the beginning or end of a book [n -LEAVES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flyleaf

flying sports
flying spot microscope
flying squad
flying squirrel
flying squirrels
flying start
flying starts
flying the coop
flying the nest
flying toilets
flying visit
flyingfish
flyingfishes
flyings
flyleaf (current term)
flyleafs
flyleaves
flyless
flymaker
flymakers
flyman
flymen
flyness
flyoff
flyoffs
flyout
flyouts
flyover
flyover state

Literary usage of Flyleaf

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1919)
"... flyleaf which recently appeared at Emden and is perhaps better adapted for reprint. Greeting to Schwab, Rau and to you. Yours, Johann Most. ..."

2. Shropshire Parish Registers by Shropshire Parish Register Society, William Phillimore Watts Phillimore (1908)
"[On the flyleaf at the other end of Vol. IV. is written:} The Register of Burial Is Births & Marriages from And after the first day of May 1695 in the ..."

3. The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge: A by Montague Rhodes James, Library (1902)
"172, double columns of 56 lines. Cent, xiv, in a good hand. Initials in red and blue. Marked A. 51. No. 51. From Glastonbury. On the flyleaf: Liber Sancte ..."

4. The Huth Library: A Catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph by Henry Huth, Frederick Startridge Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt (1880)
"A note in his handwriting on the flyleaf says, " This is probably one of the earliest publications of the sect of the Brownists, from whom descended the ..."

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