flyleaf

English

Etymology

From fly +‎ leaf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflaɪˌlif/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

flyleaf (plural flyleafs or flyleaves)

1. A blank leaf at the front or back of a book.
   • 1985 December 28, Angela Bowen, “Spielberg's Color Purple, Not Walker's”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 24, page 6:

     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."

   • 2008 May 15, Alberto Manguel, “A 30,000-Volume Window on the World”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The scribbles on the margins, the occasional date on the flyleaf, the faded bus ticket marking a page for a reason today mysterious, all try to remind me of who I was then.

   1. Especially, the free portion of an endpaper.

      Holonym: endpaper

      Comeronym: pastedown

Translations

blank page at the front or back of a book

• Catalan: pàgina de respecte f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扉頁 / 扉页 (zh) (fēiyè), 襯頁 / 衬页 (zh) (chènyè)

• Dutch: schutblad (nl) n
• Finnish: tyhjä sivu
• French: page de garde (fr) f
• German: Vorsatz (de) m, Vorsatzblatt (de) n
• Hebrew: דף מגן m
• Icelandic: saurblað n
• Japanese: 遊び紙 (あそびがみ, asobigami)
• Portuguese: guarda (pt) f
• Russian: форза́ц (ru) m (forzác), фо́рзац (ru) m (fórzac)
• Spanish: guarda (es) f
• Swedish: försätts (sv), försättsblad

Further reading

• “flyleaf”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.