Relationships Related Term:  legal size n. ~ A sheet of paper approximately 13 × 16 inches, usually folded to 8 × 13 inches, and used for writing or printing. Citations: †(Ciardi 1980, p. 136) A sheet [..]

also fool's-cap, 1630s, "type of cap worn by a jester;" see fool (n.1) + cap (n.). From c. 1700 as a type of writing paper, so called because it originally was watermarked with a jester [..]

Formerly, a sheet of printing paper of standard size, which varied from 13 x 15 to 13 1/2 x 17 inches, producing two leaves of roughly 13 x 8 inches when folded once down the center. The word is deriv [..]

A size of paper formerly standard in Great Britain, measuring 17.2 cm x 21.6 cm, or simply a piece of writing paper.

(n) a size of paper used especially in Britain

A corruption of the Italian foglio-capo (folio-sized sheet). The error must have been very ancient, as the water-mark of this sort of paper from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century was a fool&am [..]

ru|???????|m such a sheet folded or cut in half, thus approximately 8 x 13.25 inches * Italian: it|foglio protocollo|m printing paper measuring 13.5 inches x 17 inches en|legal * en|quarto