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Brewer's: Foolscap
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's head, with cap and bells.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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