flyleaf

Examples

• All

• The author signed the book on the flyleaf before handing it to me.

• In the flyleaf was scrawled, "Don't forget to laugh."

  Fiction book (1993)

• But a note on the flyleaf tells the way to the fabulous Planet of Youth.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The old lady called back up, "Just make sure my name is removed from the flyleaf."

  Fiction book (1999)

• Would you sign the flyleaf?

  Academic text (2009)

• On the back flyleaf of each new one, I list the birthdays of everybody in our families.

  Fiction book (1998)

• On the flyleaf, Laurence had written: "New ideas for your new life."

  Fiction book (1999)

• But this, too, was my father's book, with his name inscribed in the flyleaf.

  Academic text (2007)

• On the flyleaf, a handwritten note read: p66.

  Fiction book (1991)

• One time—I was ten or eleven—I wrote, "Souls I want to save: Uncle Tommy" on the flyleaf of my Bible.

  Fiction book (1998)

Synonyms

E

endpaper

vsflyleaf

1 5.6

A sheet of paper attached to the inside cover of a book, often decorated or used to protect pages

is a loose blank page rather than a cover sheet fixed to the binding

I

interleaf

vsflyleaf

• Specialized

8.8

A blank page that sits between other pages in a book to protect them

sits at the very start or end as part of the binding

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Etymology