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单词 foolscap
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Definition of foolscap in English:

foolscap

nounˈfuːlzkapˈfuːlskapˈfʊlzˌkæp
mass nounBritish
  • A size of paper, about 330 × 200 (or 400) mm.

    as modifier several sheets of foolscap paper
    Example sentencesExamples
    • While he was doing so, one of his friends got a foolscap page, drew the TV3 logo on it and stuck it onto the screen.
    • The menu is a single page of foolscap, but what a page!
    • She took foolscap paper, turned and folded it to form page spreads, and sewed it to hold the sheets together.
    • There will be about ten sides of foolscap paper, including perhaps half a dozen game reports.
    • One day I gave her a chapter on four foolscap sheets.
    • Jack was furious when I put that blank piece of foolscap, headed Our Achievements, on the Bute House cabinet table.
    • A music journalist in front of me rips out a sheet of foolscap paper and spills himself on it.
    • I would write six sides of this big foolscap with tiny lines.
    • Always he wrote on the back of foolscap paper, the front of which was filled with an early draft of a section of one of his books.
    • Her CV, hand scrawled in a bi-tel across nine pages of A4 foolscap is a terribly poignant autobiography.
    • One writer swears by always writing longhand in foolscap paper in fluorescent orange colours.

Origin

Late 17th century: said to be named from a former watermark representing a fool's cap.

 
 

Definition of foolscap in US English:

foolscap

nounˈfʊlzˌkæpˈfo͝olzˌkap
British
  • A size of paper, now standardized at about 13 × 8 (or 13 × 15.75) inches (300 × 200 [or 300 × 400] mm)

    as modifier a stack of foolscap paper
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I would write six sides of this big foolscap with tiny lines.
    • One writer swears by always writing longhand in foolscap paper in fluorescent orange colours.
    • Her CV, hand scrawled in a bi-tel across nine pages of A4 foolscap is a terribly poignant autobiography.
    • A music journalist in front of me rips out a sheet of foolscap paper and spills himself on it.
    • Jack was furious when I put that blank piece of foolscap, headed Our Achievements, on the Bute House cabinet table.
    • She took foolscap paper, turned and folded it to form page spreads, and sewed it to hold the sheets together.
    • One day I gave her a chapter on four foolscap sheets.
    • Always he wrote on the back of foolscap paper, the front of which was filled with an early draft of a section of one of his books.
    • While he was doing so, one of his friends got a foolscap page, drew the TV3 logo on it and stuck it onto the screen.
    • The menu is a single page of foolscap, but what a page!
    • There will be about ten sides of foolscap paper, including perhaps half a dozen game reports.

Origin

Late 17th century: said to be named from a former watermark representing a fool's cap.

 
 
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