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twentyˈfourmo [English reading of 24mo or xxivmo, used as abbreviation of L. vicesimo quarto, after 12mo = duodecimo, etc.] The size of a book in which each sheet is folded into 24 leaves. So ˈtwentymo [= 20mo or xxmo, for L. vicesimo], the size of a book in which each sheet is folded into 20 leaves.
1841Savage Dict. Print. 798 Twenty-Fourmo, a sheet of paper folded into twenty-four leaves, forty-eight pages, is termed twenty-fourmo. Twentymo, a sheet of paper folded into twenty leaves, forty pages, is termed twentymo. 1901Eggleston Transit Civiliz. iii. 128 The sizes and shapes..running all the way to twenty-fourmos. |