flyleaf
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
flyleaf (plural flyleafs or flyleaves)
- A blank leaf at the front or back of a book.
- 1985 December 28, Angela Bowen, “Spielberg's Color Purple, Not Walker's”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 24, page 6:
- The flyleaf of Alice Walker's The Color Purple calls the book "honest, poignant, laughing, defiant...a story about heroic lives, love, and the nature of god.... It breaks new ground in fiction with its portrayal of women."
- 2008 May 15, Alberto Manguel, “A 30,000-Volume Window on the World”, in New York Times:
- The scribbles on the margins, the occasional date on the flyleaf, the faded bus ticket marking a page for a reason today mysterious, all try to remind me of who I was then.
Translations
blank page at the front or back of a book
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Further reading
- “flyleaf”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.