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Leaflet   Listen
noun
Leaflet  n.  
1.
A little leaf.
2.
(Bot.) One of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole.
3.
(Zool.) A leaflike organ or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes.
4.
A printed sheet of paper, of one page, or one sheet folded over, containing an advertisement, tract, or other notice, and usually distributed for free or included in the package with a purchased item.






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"Leaflet" Quotes from Famous Books



... From a leaflet which came long ago into my hands, I quote the experience of a German Christian, eminently successful in spiritual work; a passage which will illustrate and bring home my appeal ...
— To My Younger Brethren - Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work • Handley C. G. Moule

... taste of the whole people. Everyone in the modern civilised state has been taught to read, and almost everyone has had the written word thrust upon him; so that reading has become a habit. At every turn the eye falls upon the printed advertisement, the printed leaflet, the hand-written letter; and the habit which is developed by the necessities of life has intertwined itself also in the amenities. Newspapers, and weekly and monthly periodicals, adapt themselves to the tastes of every class in the community. The time is still far distant when books will ...
— Personality in Literature • Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

... rigour against me. My principal accuser was my unnatural step-brother the Vidame d'Orrain. He went so far as to charge me with aiding and harbouring the members of the New Heresy, and the discovery of a small leaflet printed at Geneva amongst my books was held to be sufficient proof against me. The affair of the duel I might have lived through, but this meant death. I took refuge in flight; it was the only course. I was condemned in my absence by the Chambre Ardente to the extreme penalty, ...
— Orrain - A Romance • S. Levett-Yeats

... very thing," interrupted the monk. (He fumbled in his pocket a moment.) "Yes, here's the leaflet that was issued last night." (He held out a printed piece of paper ...
— Dawn of All • Robert Hugh Benson

... Begin at the first end, and work the two rows of long stitches exactly as directed for the leaves of the edging; at the end of the two following rows, which are in double crochet, round the leaves, instead of breaking off the cotton, work in double crochet from the third leaflet to the first; thus connecting the work in one single leaf with three divisions. Having prepared the required number of flowers and leaves, baste your edging on the paper pattern, so that the whole of the leaves rest on the paper; then work a chain rather loose, to ...
— The Lady's Album of Fancy Work for 1850 • Unknown

... hours before I left London, and he was absolutely enthusiastic. 'If one thing,' he said, 'will save the country, it is this splendid attack upon the new diplomacy!'—as you so cleverly called it. The Duke tells me that that first article of yours is to be printed as a leaflet and ...
— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... constantly running about from one gland to another to sip up the honey as it is secreted. But this is not all; there is a still more wonderful provision of more solid food. At the end of each of the small divisions of the compound leaflet there is, when the leaf first unfolds, a little yellow fruit-like body united by a point at its base to the end of the pinnule. Examined through a microscope, this little appendage looks like a golden pear. ...
— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt

... For instance, in Paris and Barcelona there are many thousands who understand Esperanto. Here is another German firm in Berlin. Here is a bookseller in Paris issuing a catalogue entirely in Esperanto. Here is a leaflet about the Panama Exposition published in Esperanto. Here is the town of Baden, a watering place near Vienna. They publish a guide of their town in Esperanto. Here is a catalogue issued by the Oliver Typewriter Co. printed in Esperanto. Cook's famous touring ...
— Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education • Richard Bartholdt and A. Christen

... number of papers and addresses, covering, in a wide range, the various parts of the work of this Association. Some of these have already appeared in the December number of THE MISSIONARY, and a portion of them will be reprinted in pamphlet or leaflet form, especially those from the field workers or which relate directly to field operations. Besides these, some of the valuable addresses not thus printed will be issued in pamphlet form, and all of them are freely offered ...
— The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 1, January, 1896 • Various



Words linked to "Leaflet" :   flap, foliage, booklet, pamphlet, heart valve, leafage, brochure, blue book, pinna



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