Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A leaf from a sheet of paper regularly folded for a book in twenty-four equal parts.
- noun A book made up of leaves folded in twenty-four equal parts.
- noun Usually written 24 mo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun vincesimo-quarto (as a paper size in printing).
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Examples
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Here is a table full of old parchment-bound books, ranging from a tiny twenty-fourmo, which will stay neither open nor shut, to thin, limp folios that are instantly correspondent to either command.
The Booklover and His Books Harry Lyman Koopman 1898
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As in the case of the Chinese book, it looks superficially like ours; we think it is a tiny quarto until we see that its measure is rather that of an oblong twenty-fourmo; that is, its dimensions are just scant of five inches high and six inches wide.
The Booklover and His Books Harry Lyman Koopman 1898
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