QUARTO

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.

2.
n.

Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.


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