(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The complete record consists of two hardback foolscap notebooks that provide a fascinating insight into the medical practice of the times when the industrial revolution was just getting under way.
(2) "Got a pile of CVs here," he grunts during the introductory smackdown, waving a miffed baronial paw over a pile of dog-eared foolscap.
(3) While the old bag held the official foolscap double-entry notebook, a bunch of tea-stained bank statements (sheets 24 and 37 missing), the nation's cheque stubs and the speech, there's no need now for anything more than a laptop, and a brick to give the thing a bit of heft, while the chancellor waves it in the wind.
Octavo
Definition:
(n.) A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eight leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 8vo or 8¡.
(a.) Having eight leaves to a sheet; as, an octavo form, book, leaf, size, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its fibres end principally in the ventral part of the octavo-lateral area, with practically no overlapping with the terminals of the lateral line nerves.
(2) Initially, the neuroepithelial tissue of the rhombencephalon consists of a pair of rostral and caudal bridgeheads: the former the primary neuroepithelium of the cerebellum and the latter the primary neuroepithelium of the octavo-precerebellar system.
(3) Changes in the rhombencephalic nuclei which receive octavo-lateralis afferent fibers show a trend towards development of auditory nuclei only in the anuran lineage.
(4) In both species retrogradely labelled cells were observed: ipsilaterally in the corpus striatum, lateral amygdala, ventral and dorsal thalamus and nucleus of DARKSCHEWITSCH--bilaterally in the pretectal nucleus, dorsal tegmentum and nucleus reticularis medius--contralaterally in the tectum opticum and area octavo lateralis.
(5) Spanish suffices with one neat word: octavos , which seems far more practical.
(6) It follows a logical progression – final, semis, cuartos, octavos ."