flyleaf

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A blank leaf at the front or back of a book.
    — The flyleaf of Alice Walker's The Color Purple calls the book "honest, poignant, laughing, defiant...a story about heroic lives, love, and the nature of god.... It breaks new ground in fiction with its portrayal of women."
  2. A blank leaf at the front or back of a book.; Especially, the free portion of an endpaper.
    — Holonym: endpaper

词形变化

flyleafs plural flyleaves plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *plewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi
Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
Proto-West Germanic *fleugan
Old English flēogan
Middle English fliender.
English fly
English leaf
English flyleaf
From fly + leaf.
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