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legal cap en · NOUN

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1. (US, historical, uncountable) 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.
   • 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. 1910, O. Henry, “The Thing's the Play”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million:
   • 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. 1925, John Roderigo Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, Chapter 4:

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