legal cap
legal cap noun: a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets, often with a red line down the left side.
Noun
legal cap (uncountable)
- A kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets, often with a red line down the left side.
- One day a middle-aged, money-making lawyer, who bought his legal cap and ink of her, asked her across the counter to marry him.1910, O. Henry, “The Thing's the Play”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
- Through them he could see the steep bulk of buildings scaled with lights and a plankshaped bit of inky sky. He was copying memoranda on a long sheet of legal cap.1925, John Roderigo Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, Chapter 4
Forms of legal cap
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Questions about legal cap
- What does legal cap mean?
- Legal cap means a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets, often with a red line down the left side.
- What part of speech is legal cap?
- Legal cap is a noun.
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