interleaf

[ in-ter-leef ]

noun

, plural in·ter·leaves [in, -ter-leevz].

1. an additional leaf, usually blank, inserted between or bound with the regular printed leaves of a book, as to separate chapters or provide room for a reader's notes.

interleaf

/ ˈɪntəˌliːf /

noun

1. a blank leaf inserted between the leaves of a book

Word History and Origins

Origin of interleaf¹

First recorded in 1735–45; inter- + leaf

Example Sentences

The novel interleaves the narrator’s history with snippets of the island’s.

From Los Angeles Times

Tracing Lucy’s history with him while the two try to solve a dark mystery, “William!” intricately interleaves past with present.

From Washington Post

Another chapter on the problems besetting small-town America interleaves a profile of a steakhouse employee in Nelsonville, Ohio, who ran for office with the rise and fall of Bon-Ton department stores in Pennsylvania.

From New York Times

He interleaves poetry and literature — the terrain of memory and myth — with modern geology, ecology and physics, and nature narrative.

From Nature

Donald T. Sanders, the director, interleaves Hans’s monologues and the puppet interludes with music, mostly from Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten, neither an Andersen contemporary.

From New York Times