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sexto|ˈsɛkstəʊ| [a. L. sextō, ablative case of sextus sixth: cf. quarto, etc.] The designation of the size of a book, or of the page of a book, in which each leaf is one-sixth of a sheet.
1847De Morgan Arithm. Bks. Introd. 11 When he folds a sheet of paper into six leaves, making what ought to be a sexto book, he calls it a duodecimo printed in half sheets. |