folio

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FO'LIO, noun [Latin folium, a leaf, in folio ] 1. A book of the largest size, formed by once doubling a sheet of paper. 2. Among merchants, a page, or rather both the right and left hand pages of an account book, expressed by the same figure.
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