湖边社【每日一词】foolscap - n.大裁；大页纸（一种标准的纸张规格，为17.2 x 21.6厘米）；圆锥形的纸帽；滑稽帽（等于 fool's cap）
noun
variants or less commonly fool's cap
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
Examples of foolscap in a Sentence
It contains two foolscap sheets of closely-typed questions, simply because somebody is asking for a rent rebate.
He wrote me 30 pages of foolscap, with three words out of every 10 mis-spelled.
Think of Dickens and piles of foolscap and quill pens and Bob Cratchit.
—John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 4 July 2019