twelvemo
(ˈtwɛlvməʊ)
English reading of the abbreviation 12mo or xiimo for duodecimo. Also attrib.
| 1819 ‘R. Rabelais’ Abeillard & Heloisa 56 We stew them down for twelvemo use. 1835 J. Hannett Bibliopegia i. 12 The twelvemo also presents us with the eighteens, after the sheet is cut into three divisions. 1888 Jacobi Printers' Vocab., Twelvemo, a sheet of paper folded into twelve leaves, written thus—12 mo. Also called ‘duodecimo’. 1914 Chambers' Jrnl. Jan. 7/2 Another French book..is a twelvemo volume. |