QUARTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quarto mean? 

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

1. the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUARTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

4to; quarto

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

size (the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing))

 Context examples 

Of all the moveables in it, I must have been impressed by a certain old bureau of some dark wood in the parlour (the tile-floored kitchen was the general sitting-room), with a retreating top which opened, let down, and became a desk, within which was a large quarto edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her comprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed paper, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)