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flyleaf

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fly·leaf  (fllf)
n.
A blank or specially printed leaf at the beginning or end of a book.
flyleaf [ˈflaɪˌliːf]
n pl -leaves
(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) the inner leaf of the endpaper of a book, pasted to the first leaf
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Noun1.flyleaf - a blank leaf in the front or back of a book
folio, leaf - a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
Translations
flyleaf [ˈflaɪliːf] N (flyleaves (pl)) → guarda f
flyleaf [ˈflaɪliːf] n → page f de garde
fly-on-the-wall documentary n → documentaire m pris sur le vif
see also fly
flyleaf [ˈflaɪˌliːf] n (-leaves (pl)) → risguardo
flyleaf [ˈflaɪˌliːf] n (-leaves (pl)) → risguardo


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" Here my eye, resting on the flyleaf of the book, saw written, "Frances Evan Henri.
The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
Scribbled in sore haste, by a very tremulous little hand, with a pencil, on the flyleaf of some book, my darling's message is still difficult to read; it was doubly so in the moonlight, five-and-forty autumns ago.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
With a silver pencil she wrote her name and address on the flyleaf of
The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia View in context
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