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octavo

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oc·ta·vo  (k-tv, -tä-)
n. pl. oc·ta·vos In both senses also called eightvo.
1. The page size, from 5 by 8 inches to 6 by 9 1/2 inches, of a book composed of printer's sheets folded into eight leaves.
2. A book composed of octavo pages.

[Medieval Latin (in) octv, (in) an eighth, from Latin, ablative sing. of octvus, eighth, from oct, eight; see okt(u) in Indo-European roots.]

octavo
Noun
pl -vos
1. a book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper of a standard size to form eight leaves
2. a book or sheet of this size [New Latin in octavo in an eighth (of a sheet)]
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Noun1.octavo - the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves
size - the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing); "he wears a size 13 shoe"

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My 'Conquest of Granada' was in two octavo volumes, bound in drab boards, and printed on paper very much yellowed with time at its irregular edges.
who labors indefatigably, through three octavo volumes, to accomplish the destruction of one or two souls, while any common devil would have demolished one or two thousand.
I remained in the same vague state of mind until ten o'clock or thereabouts, when going below, I found suspended on either side of the cabin, three long tiers of hanging bookshelves, designed apparently for volumes of the small octavo size.
 
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