The act of numbering pages or sheets with folio numbers, or marking something with leaf-like decorations.
Present participle of 'folio,' from the Latin 'folium' (leaf), describing the process of assigning sequential numbers to pages in a document.
Before printing presses standardized pages, scribes spent hours folioing manuscripts by hand—imagine having to number every single page of a book one at a time with a quill pen!
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