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- noun Plural form of
flyleaf .
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Examples
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You can write stuff in the front flyleaves and give them to people as presents.
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You can get the author to write stuff in the front flyleaves and keep them for yourself.
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But in a feat of inspired scholarship, Duffy has turned to the very features of these books that have rankled those who study them as works of art: the jottings in the margins and on the flyleaves made by their owners, hitherto regarded as defacements at worst and proof of provenance at best.
Life in the Margins 2007
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Published 1753, with several generations of pensive inscriptions in Gothic script on the flyleaves from and to various of my husband's ancestors.
The most unusual book in your house. Ann Althouse 2009
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But in a feat of inspired scholarship, Duffy has turned to the very features of these books that have rankled those who study them as works of art: the jottings in the margins and on the flyleaves made by their owners, hitherto regarded as defacements at worst and proof of provenance at best.
Life in the Margins 2007
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But in a feat of inspired scholarship, Duffy has turned to the very features of these books that have rankled those who study them as works of art: the jottings in the margins and on the flyleaves made by their owners, hitherto regarded as defacements at worst and proof of provenance at best.
Life in the Margins 2007
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The flyleaves are meant to look like waves on the Yangtze.
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One reader -- call him David G. -- made it through "Infinite Jest" and its 388 endnotes in five days, scribbling notes on the flyleaves as if dropping bread crumbs in a pathless forest.
Levity's Rainbow 2008
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I love the smell of dusty pages, the faded colours of worn bindings, and the mysterious inscriptions so often found on yellowed and slightly foxed flyleaves.
Remembrance In Things Past kittenpie 2006
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I love the smell of dusty pages, the faded colours of worn bindings, and the mysterious inscriptions so often found on yellowed and slightly foxed flyleaves.
Archive 2006-10-01 kittenpie 2006
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