Wordswarms From Years Past
13-Letter Words
12-Letter Words
11-Letter Words
10-Letter Words
9-Letter Words
8-Letter Words
7-Letter Words
6-Letter Words
5-Letter Words
4-Letter Words
3-Letter Words
Adjacent WordsFoolhardiness
Foolhardise
Foolhardy
foolheaded
Foolify
Fooling
Foolish
foolish woman
Foolishly
Foolishness
foolproof
Fools-parsley
Foolstones
Fooltrap
foosball
Foot
Foot and mouth disease
Foot artillery
Foot bank
Foot barracks
Foot bellows
foot brake
Foot candle
Foot company
foot doctor
|
Foolscap definitions
FOOLS'CAP, n. [L. scapus, or folio and shape.] A kind of paper of small size.
n 1: a size of paper used especially in Britain
also fool's cap noun Date: 1602 1. a cap or hood usually with bells worn by jesters 2. a conical cap for slow or lazy students 3. (usually foolscap) [from the watermark of a foolscap formerly applied to such paper] a size of paper formerly standard in Great Britain; broadly a piece of writing paper
n. Brit. a size of paper, about 330 x 200 (or 400) mm. Etymology: named from the former watermark representing a fool's cap
Foolscap Fools"cap`, n. [So called from the watermark of a fool's cap and bells used by old paper makers. See Fool's cap, under Fool.] A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.
Foolscap is paper which is about 34 centimetres by 43 centimetres in size. (mainly BRIT)
|
|