folio
/folio/ • noun (pl. folios) 1 a sheet of paper folded once to form two leaves (four pages) of a book. 2 a book made up of such sheets. 3 an individual leaf of paper numbered on the front side only. 4 the page number in a printed book. — ORIGIN Latin, used to mean ‘on leaf (as specified)’, from folium ‘leaf’.
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