foolscapn.²

Brit.

/ˈfuːlskap/,

/ˈfuːlzkap/, U.S.

/ˈfulzˌkæp/,

/ˈfulˌskæp/

Forms: 1600s fools capp, 1600s–1700s fools cap, 1600s– fool's cap (now rare), 1700s– foolscap.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: fool's cap n.¹

Etymology: Originally a variant of fool's cap n.¹, now usually distinguished in form and pronunciation in the senses below.The use as a watermark of a depiction of the head of a jester wearing a fool's cap was widespread in Europe in the early modern period. It has sometimes been claimed that the fool's cap watermark was introduced to England (punning on his surname) by the German-born Sir John Spielmann, who built a paper mill at Dartford in the 1580s; however, there is no evidence to support this suggestion. There is also no evidence to support the suggestion that the Rump Parliament (see Rump Parliament n. at rump n.¹ Compounds 2) ordered a fool's cap to be substituted for the royal arms in the watermark of the paper used for the journals of the House.

1. A large size of printing or writing paper, measuring about 16½ inches by 13½ inches (approx. 42 cm by 34 cm), formerly typically used for writing documents, literary manuscripts, records of meetings, etc.Foolscap paper was originally watermarked with a foolscap watermark (see sense 2); in Britain, however, a Britannia watermark was later used instead on this size of paper.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > sizes of

royal paper1497

small paper1497

sheet1510

demy1546

imperial1572

pot1579

quarto1580

grape1611

crown paper1620

foolscap1660

bastard1711

copy1712

crown1712

vigesimo-quarto1864

columbier1875

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper of specific size

paper royal1497

paper rial1501

sheet1510

demy1546

imperial1572

pot1579

lily-pot1593

grape1611

cap1620

crown paper1620

post1648

foolscap1660

bastard1711

copy1712

crown1712

Kentish cap1766

vessel of paper1790

antiquarian1815

quartern1819

quatrain1819

Albert note1846

cap-paper1854

sermon paper1855

Albert1859

columbier1875

Albert notepaper1881

cuatro1904

duchess1923

half-imperial-

1660 Acct. Duties Payable by Act Tonnage & Poundage (single sheet) (table) Fine Fools Cap One Hundred Reams.

1682 J. Phillips Speculum Crape-gownorum: 2nd Pt. 20 Prithee let 'em Print their Sermons, till Fools Cap be Five Pound a Ream if they please.

1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 173/2 Foolscap, a folded writing-paper, usually 12 by 15 inches, or 12½ by 16.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 45 Foolscap, a size of printing paper 17 × 13½ inches; writing paper 16¾ × 13½ inches.

1962 A. MacLean Satan Bug ix. 139 There were seven pages of foolscap.

2017 Berwickshire News (Nexis) 16 Sept. The book has been through many trials and tribulations: from typewritten sheets of foolscap, handwritten pages of notes, rewrites.

2. A depiction of a jester wearing a fool's cap (see fool's cap n.¹ 1a) and a collar with multiple points used as a watermark on foolscap paper. Cf. Compounds c. Now historical.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > water(-)mark

watermark1708

waterline1779

foolscap1795

watermarking1849

countermark1927

1795 S. Denne in Archaeologia 12 121 The Fool's cap is not in either the Paston Letters or Mr. Ord's Plates. The date of that device in Mr. Fisher's is as late as 1661.

1898 N. H. Dole Mistakes we Made vii. 86 There is no truth in this frequently reiterated statement that the Rump Parliament placed a fool's cap on their own paper to spite the dead king.

1992 Print Collector's Newslet. 22 229 Jan Lutma, Goldsmith..etch with drypoint and eng, 1656, counterproof of second state of three, watermark Foolscap, narrow margins or trimmed on platemark, minor defects.

Compounds

a. General use as a modifier, as in foolscap page, foolscap paper, foolscap sheet, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [adjective] > designating international standard paper size > specific size of paper

demy1546

imperial1658

foolscap1671

super-royal1681

medium1711

royal1780

pinched1893

1671 Inventory 11 Dec. in J. A. Johnston Probate Inventories Lincoln Citizens 1661–1714 (1991) 35 2 Reames 14 quire fools Capp paper.

1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs xxii. 244 A Painter's Pencil for a Pen I'd chuse, And dawb whole Fools-Cap Reams with T——d and Mire.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 409 An essay nine foolscap pages long.

1887 Times 27 Aug. 11/4 In a foolscap volume of 260 pages.

1940 H. Innes Trojan Horse iii. 62 I signed the carbon and placed it in a foolscap envelope.

2016 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Jan. (Politics section) They were put on their mettle..by the paucity of instruction/guidance—a single foolscap sheet of paper! Today it would be a book.

b. Designating sizes of paper obtained by folding a sheet of foolscap paper, as in foolscap folio, foolscap octavo, foolscap quarto. Now chiefly historical.See folio n. 6, octavo n., quarto n. 1.

ΚΠ

1768 Lloyd's Evening Post 29 Jan.–1 Feb. 112/2 Neatly printed in Four Volumes, Fool's Cap Octavo, Price 13s bound.

1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. iii. 29 Between three and four hundred sheets of foolscap folio.

1921 Current Lit. Sept. 138/1 Adair (C.) The Dean's Daughter. Foolscap 8vo, pp. 284.

2006 J. Bristow in O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray (new ed.) Introd. p. xxvii Even though the foolscap quarto edition was snapped up by collectors, many of the crown octavo copies had no buyers.

c. Designating a watermark consisting of a jester wearing a fool's cap (see fool's cap n.¹ 1a) and a collar with multiple points used on foolscap paper, as in foolscap watermark, foolscap mark. Now historical. In quot. 1872 the phrase old foolscap mark refers to the watermark depicting a jester’s cap, but the sense of foolscap mark itself is only ‘a watermark used on foolscap paper’; an image of a Britannia watermark is captioned ‘Modern Foolscap Mark’.Cf. sense 2.

ΚΠ

1872 Cassell's Techn. Educator III. 161 (caption) Old Foolscap Mark.]

1887 Harper's Mag. June 126/1 The figure of Britannia afterward took the place of the fool's-cap mark.

2013 Jrnl. Royal Musical Assoc. 138 233 The manuscript features a seven-point foolscap watermark typical of post-Restoration manuscripts.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	foolscap
释义	foolscapn.² Brit. /ˈfuːlskap/, /ˈfuːlzkap/, U.S. /ˈfulzˌkæp/, /ˈfulˌskæp/ Forms: 1600s fools capp, 1600s–1700s fools cap, 1600s– fool's cap (now rare), 1700s– foolscap. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: fool's cap n.¹ Etymology: Originally a variant of fool's cap n.¹, now usually distinguished in form and pronunciation in the senses below.The use as a watermark of a depiction of the head of a jester wearing a fool's cap was widespread in Europe in the early modern period. It has sometimes been claimed that the fool's cap watermark was introduced to England (punning on his surname) by the German-born Sir John Spielmann, who built a paper mill at Dartford in the 1580s; however, there is no evidence to support this suggestion. There is also no evidence to support the suggestion that the Rump Parliament (see Rump Parliament n. at rump n.¹ Compounds 2) ordered a fool's cap to be substituted for the royal arms in the watermark of the paper used for the journals of the House. 1. A large size of printing or writing paper, measuring about 16½ inches by 13½ inches (approx. 42 cm by 34 cm), formerly typically used for writing documents, literary manuscripts, records of meetings, etc.Foolscap paper was originally watermarked with a foolscap watermark (see sense 2); in Britain, however, a Britannia watermark was later used instead on this size of paper. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > sizes of royal paper1497 small paper1497 sheet1510 demy1546 imperial1572 pot1579 quarto1580 grape1611 crown paper1620 foolscap1660 bastard1711 copy1712 crown1712 vigesimo-quarto1864 columbier1875 society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper of specific size paper royal1497 paper rial1501 sheet1510 demy1546 imperial1572 pot1579 lily-pot1593 grape1611 cap1620 crown paper1620 post1648 foolscap1660 bastard1711 copy1712 crown1712 Kentish cap1766 vessel of paper1790 antiquarian1815 quartern1819 quatrain1819 Albert note1846 cap-paper1854 sermon paper1855 Albert1859 columbier1875 Albert notepaper1881 cuatro1904 duchess1923 half-imperial- 1660 Acct. Duties Payable by Act Tonnage & Poundage (single sheet) (table) Fine Fools Cap One Hundred Reams. 1682 J. Phillips Speculum Crape-gownorum: 2nd Pt. 20 Prithee let 'em Print their Sermons, till Fools Cap be Five Pound a Ream if they please. 1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 173/2 Foolscap, a folded writing-paper, usually 12 by 15 inches, or 12½ by 16. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 45 Foolscap, a size of printing paper 17 × 13½ inches; writing paper 16¾ × 13½ inches. 1962 A. MacLean Satan Bug ix. 139 There were seven pages of foolscap. 2017 Berwickshire News (Nexis) 16 Sept. The book has been through many trials and tribulations: from typewritten sheets of foolscap, handwritten pages of notes, rewrites. 2. A depiction of a jester wearing a fool's cap (see fool's cap n.¹ 1a) and a collar with multiple points used as a watermark on foolscap paper. Cf. Compounds c. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > water(-)mark watermark1708 waterline1779 foolscap1795 watermarking1849 countermark1927 1795 S. Denne in Archaeologia 12 121 The Fool's cap is not in either the Paston Letters or Mr. Ord's Plates. The date of that device in Mr. Fisher's is as late as 1661. 1898 N. H. Dole Mistakes we Made vii. 86 There is no truth in this frequently reiterated statement that the Rump Parliament placed a fool's cap on their own paper to spite the dead king. 1992 Print Collector's Newslet. 22 229 Jan Lutma, Goldsmith..etch with drypoint and eng, 1656, counterproof of second state of three, watermark Foolscap, narrow margins or trimmed on platemark, minor defects. Compounds a. General use as a modifier, as in foolscap page, foolscap paper, foolscap sheet, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [adjective] > designating international standard paper size > specific size of paper demy1546 imperial1658 foolscap1671 super-royal1681 medium1711 royal1780 pinched1893 1671 Inventory 11 Dec. in J. A. Johnston Probate Inventories Lincoln Citizens 1661–1714 (1991) 35 2 Reames 14 quire fools Capp paper. 1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs xxii. 244 A Painter's Pencil for a Pen I'd chuse, And dawb whole Fools-Cap Reams with T——d and Mire. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 409 An essay nine foolscap pages long. 1887 Times 27 Aug. 11/4 In a foolscap volume of 260 pages. 1940 H. Innes Trojan Horse iii. 62 I signed the carbon and placed it in a foolscap envelope. 2016 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Jan. (Politics section) They were put on their mettle..by the paucity of instruction/guidance—a single foolscap sheet of paper! Today it would be a book. b. Designating sizes of paper obtained by folding a sheet of foolscap paper, as in foolscap folio, foolscap octavo, foolscap quarto. Now chiefly historical.See folio n. 6, octavo n., quarto n. 1. ΚΠ 1768 Lloyd's Evening Post 29 Jan.–1 Feb. 112/2 Neatly printed in Four Volumes, Fool's Cap Octavo, Price 13s bound. 1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. iii. 29 Between three and four hundred sheets of foolscap folio. 1921 Current Lit. Sept. 138/1 Adair (C.) The Dean's Daughter. Foolscap 8vo, pp. 284. 2006 J. Bristow in O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray (new ed.) Introd. p. xxvii Even though the foolscap quarto edition was snapped up by collectors, many of the crown octavo copies had no buyers. c. Designating a watermark consisting of a jester wearing a fool's cap (see fool's cap n.¹ 1a) and a collar with multiple points used on foolscap paper, as in foolscap watermark, foolscap mark. Now historical. In quot. 1872 the phrase old foolscap mark refers to the watermark depicting a jester’s cap, but the sense of foolscap mark itself is only ‘a watermark used on foolscap paper’; an image of a Britannia watermark is captioned ‘Modern Foolscap Mark’.Cf. sense 2. ΚΠ 1872 Cassell's Techn. Educator III. 161 (caption) Old Foolscap Mark.] 1887 Harper's Mag. June 126/1 The figure of Britannia afterward took the place of the fool's-cap mark. 2013 Jrnl. Royal Musical Assoc. 138 233 The manuscript features a seven-point foolscap watermark typical of post-Restoration manuscripts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † foolscapv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: fool's cap n.¹ Etymology: < fool's cap n.¹ Compare earlier fool's-capped adj. Obsolete. transitive. To consider (someone) to be foolish or ridiculous.Apparently an isolated use for literary effect.The sense of foolscap in the formation is uncertain: it may be either fool's cap n.¹ 1a (the hat worn by a jester) or fool's cap n.¹ 1b (a dunce's cap). ΚΠ 1917 W. E. Leonard in W. P. Trent et al. Cambr. Hist. Amer. Lit. I. ii. v. 265 He was never laurelled like Byron, never foolscapped like Keats by critics or public. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020). < n.²1660v.1917
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foolscapn.2

Compounds

† foolscapv.

foolscapn.²