Definition of endpaper in English:
endpaper
nounˈɛn(d)peɪpəˈɛn(d)ˌpeɪpər
A leaf of paper at the beginning or end of a book, especially one fixed to the inside of the cover.
green morocco covers and marbled endpapers
Example sentencesExamples
- In other pieces, the swirls and flecks of underlayers resemble the endpapers of antique books.
- For paper, he went to university libraries and consulted old books, quickly ripping out the blank endpapers whenever no one was looking.
- On the endpapers are my name and the address of the house where I grew up, in my mother's handwriting.
- Books he used for teaching often had their endpapers covered with page numbers, references, and brief comments; these jottings formed his working index, a set of notes that would never be separated from the book.
- The arrangement of the cover to endpapers to title pages is such a marvelous set of elements to play with.
- Each book is also accompanied by a bookmark that matches the endpaper exactly.
- The atlas endpapers are topographic maps of Switzerland at a scale of 1: 800, 000.
- Bright colored tissue endpapers often enclosed the body of the work.
- The book's front endpaper is a map titled ‘My World as a Child,’.
- The camera dwells lovingly on bookshelves, there are close ups of book covers and their spines, the title page and the endpapers.
- Readers writing in books usually takes the form of notes in the side margins of a book, though there are those who will scribble on the flyleaf or fill up the endpapers.
Definition of endpaper in US English:
endpaper
(also end paper)
nounˈɛn(d)ˌpeɪpərˈen(d)ˌpāpər
A blank or decorated leaf of paper at the beginning or end of a book, especially one fixed to the inside of the cover.
green morocco covers and marbled endpapers
Example sentencesExamples
- Bright colored tissue endpapers often enclosed the body of the work.
- Books he used for teaching often had their endpapers covered with page numbers, references, and brief comments; these jottings formed his working index, a set of notes that would never be separated from the book.
- On the endpapers are my name and the address of the house where I grew up, in my mother's handwriting.
- Each book is also accompanied by a bookmark that matches the endpaper exactly.
- The camera dwells lovingly on bookshelves, there are close ups of book covers and their spines, the title page and the endpapers.
- For paper, he went to university libraries and consulted old books, quickly ripping out the blank endpapers whenever no one was looking.
- The atlas endpapers are topographic maps of Switzerland at a scale of 1: 800, 000.
- The book's front endpaper is a map titled ‘My World as a Child,’.
- Readers writing in books usually takes the form of notes in the side margins of a book, though there are those who will scribble on the flyleaf or fill up the endpapers.
- The arrangement of the cover to endpapers to title pages is such a marvelous set of elements to play with.
- In other pieces, the swirls and flecks of underlayers resemble the endpapers of antique books.