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quarto
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves [syn: 4to ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quarto \Quar"to\, n.; pl. Quartos . Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.
Wikipedia
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Quarto is a board game for two players invented by Swiss mathematician Blaise Müller in 1991. 1993 Mensa Select Winner 1993 Spiel des Jahres Recommended 2001 Vuoden Peli Adult Game of the Year Winner It is played on a 4×4 board. There are 16 unique pieces, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"book from paper folded to make four pages to the sheet," late 15c., from Medieval Latin in quarto "in the fourth (part of a sheet of paper)," from quarto , ablative singular of Latin quartus "fourth" (see quart ).
Usage examples of quarto.
Deitou-me na cama, deixou a luz apagada e foi buscar no outro quarto as minhas malas.
Conseguimos quartos na pousada do ator Paulo Autran, a mais bonita e a melhor de Parati.
Bodleian library there is a third example, written in quarto with large uncial letters in double columns, in much the same style as the book given by Parker to Corpus Christi.
If this style of writing be continued, we may expect not only the actions of Vindomarus or Ariovistus to be celebrated, but we may perhaps see the history of the Cherokees, Choctaws, and Catabaws, versified in quarto.
Fomos todos para a sala, menos Jade, que, ouvindo o choro do filho, foi para o quarto.
It was addressed to Serenissimo Domino Nostro lohanni Quarto, Dci Gratia, Angliae, Franciae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, Novae Angliae et Novae Franciae, Rex, Imperatore, Fidei Defensor, .
The printing of three quarto volumes in those days of handpresses was a formidable undertaking, and unless expedition were used the publishing season of the ensuing year would be lost.
Chaucer Folio, the Shakespeare First Quarto, the three Kelmscott Morrises, the autographed copy of The Man of Property, and the embroidered glove belonging to the Countess of Shrewsbury.
Lowria Lloyd de Havod-lwyfog in agro Arvonensi in matrimonio conjuncti fuere decimo quarto die Feb.
Ao entrar no quarto, fui direto para a minha mesa, abri a gaveta e retirei um envelope antigo, que guardava a foto de uma menina loira usando um vestido florido e sorrindo de modo claro e expressivo.
Lembre-se de Romeu subindo na sacada de Julieta e de Tatziu saltando da janela do quarto de Liv.
Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed paper, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.
His secluded room I could picture to myself with a sense of certainty--the couch (a sofa by day), the cupboard, the writing-table with its student lamp, the litter of pamphlets and old quartos and octavos in tattered bindings, among which were scarce reprints of his beloved Charles Lamb, and perhaps--nay, surely--an editio princeps of the "Essays.
Here it is 4th Sepredi of Hawkbill Quarto, 6/317), Chromolith Smokestack.
The Arminian Le Clerc, who has composed in a quarto volume (Amsterdam, 1716) the ecclesiastical history of the two first centuries, was free both in his temper and situation.