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centerfold
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The single sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine or other publication. 2 A large photograph printed on this sheet, typically in the form of a nude, or provocatively dressed, sexually attractive woman or man. 3 The person appearing in such a photograph. 4 Any very sexually attractive person, who is therefore material for such a photograph.
WordNet
n. a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature [syn: centrefold]
Wikipedia
The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine refers to a gatefolded spread, usually a portrait such as a pin-up or a nude, inserted in the middle of the publication, or to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opposed to those that are perfect-bound), the centerfold does not have any blank space cutting through the image.
The term was coined by Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine. The success of the first issue of Playboy has been attributed in large part to its centerfold: a nude of Marilyn Monroe. The advent of monthly centerfolds gave the pin-up a new respectability, and helped to sanitize the notion of "sexiness". Being featured as a centerfold could lead to film roles for models, and still occasionally does today.
Early on, Hefner required Playboy centerfolds to be portrayed in a very specific way, telling photographers in a 1956 memo that the "model must be in a natural setting engaged in some activity 'like reading, writing, mixing a drink'...[and]... should have a 'healthy, intelligent, American look—a young lady that looks like she might be a very efficient secretary or an undergrad at Vassar.'" Hefner later said that the ideal centerfold is one in which "a situation is suggested, the presence of someone not in the picture"; the goal was to transform "a straight pinup into an intimate interlude, something personal and special."
Some magazines later adopted the practice of having a trifold or quatrefold centerfold, using a longer sheet of paper at that spot and folding the extra length into the magazine. Racier adult magazines used this space to showcase more explicit imagery: "In order to represent breasts, genitals, anus, and face all within the tri-fold frame of the centerfold, models were propped up, legs spread, raised, and then jack- knifed against their bodies, arms plunged between them to spread the labia."
Though the term has become linked in the public consciousness with erotic material or models, many other magazines such as Life, Time and National Geographic have published fold-out spreads on other subjects.
The centerfold of a magazine is a picture printed on a single sheet of paper and inserted in the middle of the publication.
Centerfold may also refer to:
- "Centerfold" (song), a 1981 song by The J. Geils Band
- "Centerfold", a song from the 2006 album I'm Not Dead by Pink
- "Centerfold", a song from the 2002 album Party Warriors by Captain Jack
- "Centrefolds", a song from the 2003 album Sleeping with Ghosts by Placebo
- Centerfold, a popular Dutch girl band featuring Laura Fygi
"Centerfold" is a single released by The J. Geils Band from their album Freeze Frame. The song is about a man who is shocked to discover that his high school crush appeared in a centerfold spread for a men's magazine. The singer cannot decide between his disappointment due to her loss of innocence, or his lust.
It was released in autumn 1981, and eventually went to Number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in February 1982, and stayed there for six weeks. It was the first single released from the album Freeze Frame and was an early staple on MTV.
In February 1982, after the song hit #1 in the US, "Centerfold" peaked at number three in the UK Top 40, earning The J. Geils Band their only major hit single in the UK, although follow-up " Freeze-Frame" was a minor hit.
The song lists at #52 on Billboard's All Time Top Songs.
Centerfold was a Dutch female pop trio that scored a string of hit records in the Netherlands halfway the 1980s. The original line-up consisted of Laura Fygi, Rowan Moore and Cecilia de la Rie.
Usage examples of "centerfold".
Arthur seemed unembarrassed at the spill of black centerfolds, their purple-backlit Afros and cocoa aureolae.
Pilar Cafe basement had been decorated more or less like an Edwardian brothel, with one-dimensional naked trollops, rather than real whores, debauching around on feed calendars, and framed Playboy centerfolds lining the golden walls.
Nude centerfolds from girlie mags had been pasted into picture frames here and there.
His gaze was particularly drawn to a centerfold beauty who was doing ingenious things with what looked like an industrial power tool.
That was how the whole town knew Miss Mavis Dixon had a box full of early Playgirl magazines, but Miss Mavis was so hateful and generally disliked that everyone agreed that the centerfolds were as close as she was ever likely to get to male genitalia.
For years the Pilar Cafe basement had been decorated more or less like an Edwardian brothel, with one-dimensional naked trollops, rather than real whores, debauching around on feed calendars, and framed Playboy centerfolds lining the golden walls.
I say centerfold, but of course pornography hasn't really kept pace with time.
Hefner looked sheepishly up over the centerfold, took a large swallow of scotch, and said, 'Sorry about that.
This one even had a copy of the movie star's Playboy centerfold from 1953 skillfully painted on the nose, but the eyes looking down from the stealthy UAV were electronic and multi-spectrum rather than china blue.
As our eyes adjusted, we could see a sampling of thirty or forty other centerfolds from the past thirty years taped to the walls, and, on the backs of the draft beer taps, the owner had glued a series of life-sized plastic breasts.
And I can learn a wet smile, pose for a centerfold, and become a happy bunny.
The patients available to the medical students were the old multiparous clinic regulars, and the contrast made the college coeds all look as if they were Playboy centerfolds.
The woman, yet another of the pimp's highpriced hookers with a photo in her police file, had been a dish, worthy of a Hollywood screen test, and certainly pretty enough for a Playboy centerfold.
The woman, yet another of the pimp's high-priced hookers with a photo in her police file, had been a dish, worthy of a Hollywood screen test, and certainly pretty enough for a Playboy centerfold.
It wasn't like the kids this afternoon, with their jokes about reading the waffle iron and what does a Playboy centerfold look like in Braille.