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flyleaves

flyleaves is the plural of flyleaf.

Meaning of flyleaf

Noun

flyleaf (plural flyleafs or flyleaves)

  1. 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."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

Questions about flyleaves

What is flyleaves the plural of?
Flyleaves is the plural of flyleaf.

Words near flyleaves in the dictionary

  1. flyingfishes
  2. flyingly
  3. flyings
  4. flyleaf
  5. flyleafs
  6. flyleaves
  7. flyless
  8. flylessness
  9. flyline
  10. flylines
  11. flyloft

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flyleaves (page history and authors); flyleaf (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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