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quarto

quar·to [ kwáwrtō ] (plural quar·tos)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. book size: a book with pages of a size traditionally created by folding a single sheet of standard-sized printing paper in half twice, giving four leaves or eight pages

2. page size: the page size of a quarto book

[Late 16th century. < Latin (in) quarto "in a fourth" < quartus "fourth"]
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