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folio

[foh-lee-oh] / ˈfoʊ liˌoʊ /


NOUN
leaf
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG




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He added that Cuerpo would take interim charge of the transport folio through to the election, which polls indicate the ruling Socialist party could lose.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

The rare book collection includes nearly 500 plays, poems and other works from the 16th and 17th centuries, among them a second folio edition of Shakespeare's complete works, published in 1632.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Each fable was printed as a separate folio; the folios are stored in a box designed by the multimedia artist Kiki Smith.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

A dog-eared punk zine flutters near a vellum-bound folio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

“Commandant says you’re to take that folio to Spiro Teluman first thing, before attending to your other duties.”

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Curated by historian Sudeshna Guha, the exhibition centres on folios from The People of India, the influential eight-volume photographic survey published between 1868 and 1875.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

First folios have been on exhibit everywhere from the British Museum to the New York Public Library and at least two major book projects will mark the anniversary.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2023

Also included are 11 folios of an early Quran dating back to the late eighth century, an inscribed bronze bowl and a monument dating to the first century B.C.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

The others artifacts are a bronze bowl, believed to be from the 3rd century, and 11 folios from an 8th-century Quran.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2023

His satchel is stuffed with sealed letters, scouting reports from surrounding outposts, receipts of sale, and several leather folios engraved with the crest of local magistrates, bound for the Capital King of Samarkand.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

All books for office use are either folioed or paged, i.e., either each page or each sheet gets a consecutive number in order to facilitate reference from the index.

From Practical Bookbinding by Paul Adam

Maccabees, 474 ll. folioed, N. T. 122 leaves, 'A Briefe Table' HH h iii to LLl iii.,

From Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs by J. Herbert (John Herbert) Slater


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