foolscap

[ UK /fˈuːlskæp/ ]
NOUN
  1. a size of paper used especially in Britain
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How To Use foolscap In A Sentence

  • In Germany (and some other continental countries) there is a yellow plaque - not larger than a 'foolscap' (A 4 size) sheet of paper - displayed at the entrance to every building site. Irish Blogs
  • I would write six sides of this big foolscap with tiny lines.
  • Her CV, hand scrawled in a bi-tel across nine pages of A4 foolscap is a terribly poignant autobiography.
  • While he was doing so, one of his friends got a foolscap page, drew the TV3 logo on it and stuck it onto the screen.
  • She took foolscap paper, turned and folded it to form page spreads, and sewed it to hold the sheets together.
  • I remember when I was a high school student, I would decorate the cover of my foolscap pads with quotes because they were so meaningful.
  • I raise my left hand which is clutching a brown foolscap envelope. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • The Germans developed a miniature photograph, called a microdot, which reduced a foolscap page to the size of a full stop; this might easily pass a censor unnoticed.
  • It held a stylograph and had been resting on some scattered sheets of foolscap that Ian had left there in the morning. The Invader A Novel
  • The other grade consists in covering the whole tusk with a succession of boldly carved grotesque figures -- human, animal, and symbolic -- giving the tusk a rich embroidered-like look, the thick ends being finished off with a suitable diamond pattern belt and the tip finished with an equally appropriate series of carvings in the shape of a mascle studded foolscap, or a capsule supported by elongated cowries. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921
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