flyleaf
- noun
- /ˈflaɪˌliːf/
- Specialized
- I was about to laugh at him, till he opened the book and showed me a note on the flyleaf, written in faded red ink.
- inscribed on the flyleaf
- wrote on the flyleaf
- a handwritten note on the flyleaf
Examples
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The author signed the book on the flyleaf before handing it to me.
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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
A sheet of paper attached to the inside cover of a book, often decorated or used to protect pages
A blank page that sits between other pages in a book to protect them
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Flyleaf is made of fly + leaf; here leaf means 'page' and fly suggests something 'loose' or 'extra'. So a flyleaf is the blank page that sits between the cover and the main pages of a book.