| 单词 | in twelves |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin twelves a. A sheet of a book folded into twelve leaves (usually in in twelves). (Cf. twelvemo n.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun] > duodecimo > sheet of twelve1670 twelvemo1819 1670 in S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Wisdome (new ed.) Advert. Bks. Ovid Metamorphosis, in Verse, by George Sandys, in twelves. 1675 Clavel's Gen. Catal. Bks. 19 Divinity in large Twelves. 1675 Clavel's Gen. Catal. Bks. 30 Physick in small Twelves. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 220 If the Form be..Twelves, he sets also under the Fifth Page Signature 3, and under the Seventh Page Signature 4. 1766 Public Advertiser 20 May Saturday will be published..in two volumes in twelves,..the second edition of The Vicar of Wakefield. 1792 Advt. Perry's New Fr. Eng. Dict. To be comprised in 750 Pages, in large Pocket Twelves. 1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing xiii. 121 Twelves, or duodecimo, is a sheet folded into twelve leaves, making twenty-four pages. It is written 12 mo. 1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing xiii. 124 Long Twelves is a twelvemo the pages of which read across the broad way. < as lemmas |
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