Definition of foolscap Foolscap
fools•cap
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What does foolscap mean?
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NounPlural: foolscaps |
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| foolscap - a size of paper used especially in Britain |
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- foolscap (n.)
A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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foolscap
fōōlz′kap, n. a long folio writing or printing paper, varying in size (17×13½ in., 16¾×13½ in., &c.), so called from having originally borne the water-mark of a fool's cap and bells
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Foolscap is lined, legal-size paper (a paper size found only in North America). It is called foolscap because, in the 18th century, folio-sized paper had the watermark of a fool's cap on it.
In the UK, foolscap paper is 13" X 8" (c 330mm X 203mm), but paper of the size is now very rarely used, being superseded by A4 (297 x 210). Older people may call A4 "foolscap". Nevertheless, ring binders, lever arch files, suspended files, and other filing related things still use the size.
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🔤- foolscap, noun, singular of foolscaps.
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