| 单词 | foolscap mark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfoolscap mark 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. < as lemmas |
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