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end paper

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end⋅pa⋅per

[end-pey-puhr]
–noun Bookbinding.
a sheet of paper, often distinctively colored or ornamented, folded vertically once to form two leaves, one of which is pasted flat to the inside of the front or back cover of a book, with the other pasted to the inside edge of the first or last page to form a flyleaf.
Also, end paper.
Also called end leaf, end sheet.


Origin:
1810–20
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end·pa·per also end paper   (ěnd'pā'pər)   
n.  Either of two folded sheets of heavy paper having one half pasted to the inside front or back cover of a book and the other half pasted to the base of the first or last page. Also called end leaf.
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