Foolscap

created by Webster 1913

(thing) by jesler (4.1 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sun Jul 29 2001 at 13:49:24

More accurately, foolscap is 13.5 * 17 inches. It was more common before metrication, the nearest metric equivalent being A4. The name foolscap comes from the watermark originally used: the outline of a fool's cap.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:43:30

Fools"cap` (?), n. [So called from the watermark of a fool's cap and bells used by old paper makers. See Fool's cap, under Fool.]

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.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles 4/15	paper	legal	Betimes
Sargasso Sea	The Laws of the Navy	Python	The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
fat cap	Philip K. Dick	Fish out of water	Don Adams

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