flyleaf

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flyleaf

/ˈflaɪˌlif/

noun flyleafs · flyleaves

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."
Especially, the free portion of an endpaper. Holonym: endpaper

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noun blank page at the front or back of a book

Español	guarda
日本語	遊び紙 asobigami
中文	扉頁 /扉页 fēiyè, 襯頁 /衬页 chènyè
Português	guarda
Français	page de garde
Deutsch	Vorsatz, Vorsatzblatt
Русский	форза́ц forzác, фо́рзац fórzac
עברית	דף מגן

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@misc{flyleaf_2026,
  title = {flyleaf},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/flyleaf},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}