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单词 half-margin
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half-margin
half-margin n. (and adv.) Obsolete a format for written material in which the page is divided into two vertical columns, one of which is typically used for headings or notes identifying matter in the other; (also) either of these columns, usually the main one; also (and earliest) as adv. (e.g. they are written half-margin).
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1796 W. Cobbett tr. M. L. E. Moreau de Saint-Méry Topogr. & Polit. Descr. Saint-Domingo II. 14 When the president writes to the king or to the Council of the Indies, he ought to do it in distinguishing the different subjects of the dispatches, which are written half-margin; notes in one column point out what is treated of in the other.
1829 H. Grant Pract. High Court Chancery (ed. 2) I. liv. 253 The copy is made by the solicitor, thus: the title of the cause is first copied, verbatim, in the inner or half margin of brief paper bookways; then, in the common or outer quarter margin.
1851 Orders & Regulations Royal Engineers (rev. ed.) iii. 13 All Official Letters for the Inspector-General are..to be written on half margin.
1928 C. G. Crump Hist. & Hist. Res. iv. 148 The plan..might take the form of a continuous statement of the proposed divisions of the subject written on half-margin, with the references to the notes to be used entered on the margin.
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half-margin
half-margin n. (see quots.).
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1851 Orders & Regulations Royal Engineers (rev. ed.) iii. 13 The Paper must be folded in the centre, lengthways, by which it will be divided, equally, into what is technically termed half-margin.
1851 Orders & Regulations Royal Engineers (rev. ed.) iii. 13 All Official Letters for the Inspector-General are..to be written on half margin.
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