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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Foolscap

A corruption of the Italian foglio-capo (folio-sized sheet). The error must have been very ancient, as the water-mark of this sort of paper from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century was a fool's head, with cap and bells.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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