as modifierfore-edge paintings had been put on books for centuries
Example sentencesExamples
Fore-edge paintings are watercolour decorations, painted on the ends of the pages of the fore-edge of a book.
For sometime now I've been delighting in hardback books with untrimmed fore-edges - making the book look and feel old; wonderful and priceless to the touch.
The flap on the right folds over to protect the fore-edge of the leaves; the book you hold in your hands, like modern books in general, lacks this amenity.
For the temporary display of your fore-edge painted book, we have available an ingenious wooden book press.
The edge of a book furthest from its back strip is the fore-edge and they can come uncut (pages that are stuck and need to be cut open) or untrimmed (the fore-edges of pages deliberately left uneven).
Definition of fore-edge in US English:
fore-edge
(also fore edge)
nounˈfôrˌejˈfɔrˌɛdʒ
technical
The outer vertical edge of the pages of a book.
〈技〉（书的）翻口
as modifierfore-edge paintings had been put on books for centuries
Example sentencesExamples
For the temporary display of your fore-edge painted book, we have available an ingenious wooden book press.
Fore-edge paintings are watercolour decorations, painted on the ends of the pages of the fore-edge of a book.
The flap on the right folds over to protect the fore-edge of the leaves; the book you hold in your hands, like modern books in general, lacks this amenity.
For sometime now I've been delighting in hardback books with untrimmed fore-edges - making the book look and feel old; wonderful and priceless to the touch.
The edge of a book furthest from its back strip is the fore-edge and they can come uncut (pages that are stuck and need to be cut open) or untrimmed (the fore-edges of pages deliberately left uneven).