FOOLSCAP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foolscap mean? 

• FOOLSCAP (noun)
  The noun FOOLSCAP has 1 sense:

1. a size of paper used especially in Britain

  Familiarity information: FOOLSCAP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOOLSCAP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A size of paper used especially in Britain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("foolscap" is a kind of...):

piece of paper; sheet; sheet of paper (paper used for writing or printing)

 Context examples 

If time hangs heavy get foolscap and a pen, and begin your narrative of how we saved the State.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As we left the room, we heard his pen travelling shrilly over the foolscap.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly filled a shelf with my writings.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two days later he received a bulky envelope, which contained a short note from the detective, and a typewritten document, which covered several pages of foolscap.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Micawber, whose impetuosity I had restrained thus far with the greatest difficulty, and who had repeatedly interposed with the first syllable of SCOUN-drel! without getting to the second, now burst forward, drew the ruler from his breast (apparently as a defensive weapon), and produced from his pocket a foolscap document, folded in the form of a large letter.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Dear me, Watson, said Homes, staring with great curiosity at the slips of foolscap which the landlady had handed to him, this is certainly a little unusual.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Perhaps I shall get the credit also at some distant day, when I permit my zealous historian to lay out his foolscap once more—eh, Watson?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, in the morning I determined to have a look at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for Pope’s Court.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)