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Definition of quarto noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

quarto

noun

NAmE//ˈkwɔrt̮oʊ//

(pl. quartos) (technology)

1[uncountable] a size of page made by folding a standard sheet of paper twice to make eight pages

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2[countable] a book with pages in quarto size an early quarto edition of Shakespeare's plays

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