quarto

A noun referring to a book size made by folding a sheet of paper twice to create four leaves, or a book of this size.

• 🇫🇷Nom désignant un format de livre obtenu en pliant deux fois une feuille de papier pour former quatre feuillets, ou un livre de ce format.

1. Book size C1 formal

   A book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper twice to create four leaves (eight pages).

   • The rare edition was printed in quarto format.
   • Many of Shakespeare's plays were originally published in quarto.
   • The library has a collection of early quarto volumes.

   🇫🇷Format in-quarto

• quartos plural form
• quartos' possessive plural form
• quarto's possessive singular form