A book where each sheet of paper is folded into eight leaves; contracted thus—8vo. (Italian, unʹ ottavo; French, in octavo; Latin, octo, eight.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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