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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
foolscap
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But here it is, all five foolscap pages, and it makes quite interesting reading.
▪ Excuse the paper ... it's easier to write a longer letter on foolscap paper!
▪ He has four or five sheets of foolscap, xeroxes, I see, of court documents.
▪ His hand Has swept the battlefield flat as a sheet of foolscap.
▪ It was to run to 2,300 pages of foolscap.
▪ Mr Yarrow made a purposeful face and turned foolscap pages before him.
▪ Thomas Foulkes will have their full colour, 28-page foolscap brochure ready for the London Boat Show.
▪ William Hunter kept a complete record of the process, occupying eighteen sheets of foolscap in a hurried hand.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foolscap

Foolscap \Fools"cap`\, n. [So called from the watermark of a fool's cap and bells used by old paper makers. See Fool's cap, under Fool.] A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
foolscap

also fool's-cap, 1630s, "type of cap worn by a jester;" see fool (n.1) + cap (n.). From c.1700 as a type of writing paper, so called because it originally was watermarked with a jester's cap.

Wiktionary
foolscap

n. 1 (alternative form of fool's cap English) 2 (label en strictly) writing paper sheets measuring 13.25 x 16.5 inches 3 (label en more usually) Such a sheet folded or cut in half, thus approximately 8 x 13.25 inches.(w Foolscap folio W) 4 printing paper measuring 13.5 inches x 17 inches.

WordNet
foolscap

n. a size of paper used especially in Britain

Wikipedia
Foolscap

Foolscap may refer to:

  • Foolscap folio, a paper size of 8½ × 13½ inches (216 × 343 mm)
  • A paper size of 17 × 13½ inches (432 × 343 mm)
  • A book by Michael Malone

Usage examples of "foolscap".

Holmes had spent several days in bed, as was his habit from time to time, but he emerged that morning with a long foolscap document in his hand and a twinkle of amusement in his austere gray eyes.

A quire of foolscap, occupying the only clear space on his desk, is melting rapidly beneath his pen.

When he came back he was holding a bundle of rain-spotted foolscap sheets that were covered on both sides with his neat uncial script.

She could not see him sitting in his padded swivel chair in the oak-panelled private room in his London offices, his long legs tucked up stiffly, his face as blank as a sheet of unruled foolscap.

The Werwolf flicked two sheets of foolscap paper covered with typed words across the desk.

To begin with, the list of artefacts, pottery sherds, and other relics filled 127 typewritten foolscap pages.

The continued political activities of a certain newspaper proprietor had driven him to verse, and he was covering a sheet of foolscap with the beginning of a minor epic expressing his own views on the subject:cf0li720Charles Charleston Charlemagne St.

This manuscript, which I have examined at Leipzig, is written on foolscap paper, rather rough and yellow.

Three high-backed chairs were set behind the rostrum, and before each chair was a new foolscap note-pad with two ball-point pens to the left and three newly sharpened pencils to the right.

But after no more than a moment's gravity he joined in the general congratulation and then told them (not without a certain satisfaction, having suffered much from cat-harpins and nether dog-pawls) that pica was the type that gave you six ems to the inch, and that all books, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo or even less, took their dimensions from the original sheets, folded twice, four times, eight times and so on, as the case might be, the original sheets having themselves various sizes and names, as foolscap, crown, quad crown, double quad crown, post, demy, royal and many more.

He crawls to them, picks them up, and begins trying to stick them into the little pile of foolscap.

Then, pious Eneas, conformant to thc fulminant firman which enjoins on the tremylose terrian that, when the call comes, he shall produce nichthemerically from his unheavenly body a no uncertain quantity of obscene matter not protected by copriright in the United Stars of Ourania or bedeed and bedood and bedang and bedung to him, with this double dye, brought to blood heat, gallic acid on iron ore, through the bowels of his misery, flashly, faithly, nastily, appropriately, this Esuan Menschavik and the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history (thereby, he said, reflecting from his own individual person life unlivable, transaccidentated through the slow fires of .

Below the foolscaps, placed so low I had to kneel to get a good look, were a couple of watercolors.

Then, pious Eneas, conformant to thc fulminant firman which enjoins on the tremylose terrian that, when the call comes, he shall produce nichthemerically from his unheavenly body a no uncertain quantity of obscene matter not protected by copriright in the United Stars of Ourania or bedeed and bedood and bedang and bedung to him, with this double dye, brought to blood heat, gallic acid on iron ore, through the bowels of his misery, flashly, faithly, nastily, appropriately, this Esuan Menschavik and the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history (thereby, he said, reflecting from his own individual person life unlivable, transaccidentated through the slow fires of consciousness into a dividual chaos, perilous, potent .

Wendell Green - ace reporter, fearless investigator, explicator of good and evil to the great unwashed - sits in his former place, holding the crumpled foolscap in one hand and the batteries in the other.