Crossword-Solution: SIXTEENMO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sixteenmo | n. | See Sextodecimo. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “SIXTEENMO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper into 16 leaves or 32 pages | 1 answer |
| sextodecimo | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with SIXTEENMO (4)
The mention of any size, folio, quarto, octavo, twelvemo, sixteenmo, calls up at once a distinct mental picture of an ideal book for each dimension, and the series is marked by a decreasing thickness of paper and size of type as it progresses downward from the folio.
The fineness of the new type, as has been suggested, called for a smaller size of book, which was also favored by considerations of economy and convenience; and so Aldus made up his sheets in a form which the fold compels us to call octavo, but which to-day would be called sixteenmo.
The printed page is relatively wide, and the whole effect of the book is that of a tiny quarto, though in reality the dimensions are those of a rather small sixteenmo of normal proportions.
Fifty years ago only one or two sizes of paper were made, and the size of sheet generally used for books was that which allowed eight pages of library size on one side, hence called "octavo" size, or when folded another way allowed twelve pages, hence "twelvemo" or "duodecimo." Other sizes occasionally used are called "sixteenmo" or "sextodecimo," "eighteenmo" or "octodecimo," etc.