endpaper

noun

end·​pa·​per ˈen(d)-ˌpā-pər How to pronounce endpaper (audio)
: a once-folded sheet of paper having one leaf pasted flat against the inside of the front or back cover of a book and the other pasted at the base to the first or last page

Examples of endpaper in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The volumes were rebound in red leather with marbled endpapers around 1800, and historian and collector William Maskell signed the book and made his own notes starting around 1847. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 May 2024 Every page of this interactive book offers a treat, even the endpapers, which contain a recipe for Lotti’s Friend-Making Cookies, chock-full of oats, pecans, and chocolate. Husna Haq, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2023 That very copy is on my bookshelves now, with my father’s name stamped on the endpaper. ELLE, 28 Apr. 2023 An endpaper ripped out of one of the old books was on the table, someone having scribbled in pencil, Stay off. Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021 No animal is injured, thank goodness, in this playful introduction for children ages 3-6 to Blake’s famous poem, which appears unaltered in the endpapers. Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019 Each book comes with an inside cover designed especially for the book in colorfully patterned endpaper and a matching bookmark. Catie L'heureux, The Cut, 2 Feb. 2018 The book’s gorgeous endpapers are based on vintage Disneyland shopping bags. Chris Nichols, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017 In the opening endpapers, against a backdrop of darkness, an angel carrying a lighted candle leads a sleepy parade of small children forward, into the book. Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 7 July 2017

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Word History

First Known Use

1818, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of endpaper was in 1818

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“Endpaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/endpaper. Accessed 4 Oct. 2024.

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