flyleaf

plural flyleafs · plural flyleaves

1. A blank leaf at the front or back of a book.

   The scribbles on the margins, the occasional date on the flyleaf, the faded bus ticket marking a page for a reason today mysterious, all try to remind me of who I was then.

   2008 May 15, Alberto Manguel, “A 30,000-Volume Window on the World”, in New York Times

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   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."

   1985 December 28, Angela Bowen, “Spielberg's Color Purple, Not Walker's”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 24, page 6

   1. Especially, the free portion of an endpaper.

      Holonym: endpaper