1
: a cap or hood usually with bells worn by jesters
2
: a conical cap for slow or lazy students
3
usually foolscap
[from the watermark of a foolscap formerly applied to such paper]
: a size of paper formerly standard in Great Britain
broadly
: a piece of writing paper
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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