Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

legal cap

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English

Syllables: legal -cap
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets, often with a red line down the left side.

American usage; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"One day a middle-aged, money-making lawyer, who bought his legal cap and ink of her, asked her across the counter to marry him."
"Through them he could see the steep bulk of buildings scaled with lights and a plankshaped bit of inky sky. He was copying memoranda on a long sheet of legal cap."

Usage

American usage
Uncountable

Inflected Forms

legal-cap (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

foolscap

Questions

What does legal cap mean?: A kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets, often with a red line down the left side.

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