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interleaf

[ in-ter-leef ]

noun

plural interleaves
  1. an additional leaf, usually blank, inserted between or bound with the regular printed leaves of a book, as to separate chapters or provide room for a reader's notes.


interleaf

/ ˈɪԳəˌː /

noun

  1. a blank leaf inserted between the leaves of a book
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of interleaf1

First recorded in 1735–45; inter- + leaf
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The novel interleaves the narrator’s history with snippets of the island’s.

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Tracing Lucy’s history with him while the two try to solve a dark mystery, “William!” intricately interleaves past with present.

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Another chapter on the problems besetting small-town America interleaves a profile of a steakhouse employee in Nelsonville, Ohio, who ran for office with the rise and fall of Bon-Ton department stores in Pennsylvania.

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He interleaves poetry and literature — the terrain of memory and myth — with modern geology, ecology and physics, and nature narrative.

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Donald T. Sanders, the director, interleaves Hans’s monologues and the puppet interludes with music, mostly from Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten, neither an Andersen contemporary.

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