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Definition of Sixmo
1. a paper size [n -MOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sixmo
Literary usage of Sixmo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles by August Neander (1844)
"... by faith into fellowship with Christ (the only perfect sixmo; by whom mankind
are delivered, in the way that we have described from the state of a^agna. ..."
2. The American Bibliopolist (1874)
"... half sheet sixmo, it only having 6 leaves; also in all the smaller sizes, as
a rule, there are only 8 leaves to a signature, although the printer's term ..."
3. Minnesota: Its Advantages to Settlers, 1869 : Being a Brief Synopsis of Its by Girart Hewitt (1869)
"... PIONEER is unsurpassed by any Paper in the Northwest. , DAILY, one year, $10.00
TBI-WEEKLY, one year, »6.00 WEEKLY, one year, $2.00 \" sixmo's, ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Art of Printing by William Savage (1841)
"A sheet of paper folded into thirty-six leaves, seventy-two pages, is termed
thirty-sixmo. THIN SPACE ought, by a strict orderly and methodical measure, ..."
5. Victoria: Late Australia Felix, Or Port Phillip District of New South Wales by William Westgarth (1853)
"... of Australian development, I quote the results of the Melbourne Post- office
for the first six months of the years 1851 and 1853 respectively:— sixmo. ..."
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