Duodecimo
[,dju:ә'desimәu]
Definition
(a.) Having twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a duodecimo from, book, leaf, size, etc.
(n.) A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into twelve leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 12mo or 12¡.
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Examples
- A light bookcase contained duodecimo volumes of polite literature in calf, completing the furniture. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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