Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A set of five sheets of paper or parchment: a term in bookbinding.

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  • noun bookbinding Five gathered sheets of paper folded in two for binding together.

Etymologies

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From quint- + -ernion, a suffix built from the ending of quaternion.

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