double crown

noun

, Chiefly British.

1. a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 centimeters).

Example Sentences

By then, abacot had taken on a life of its own, referring to not just any cap but a "Cap of State, made like a double crown, worn anciently by the Kings of England."

From Salon

Upon it, as a double crown, grew two circles of trees: the outer had bark of snowy white, and were leafless but beautiful in their shapely nakedness; the inner were mallorn-trees of great height, still arrayed in pale gold.

From Literature

She went upstairs, got one of her Egypt books, and showed the rest of them that the tenpins were shaped exactly like the inner part of the double crown of Egypt.

From Literature

And of course Marshall’s hieroglyph was the double crown of Egypt because he was already the boy-pharaoh—and that’s what he liked to be best.

From Literature

Evans began his Double Crown feat in late June at the U.S.

From Golf Digest