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A blank rectangle that has hosted every war, love affair, and lie in history

means One side of a sheet of paper in a book, document, or website — the basic unit on which text and images are laid out.

from From Latin 'pagina,' meaning a written page or column of writing, which sprang from the root 'pangere,' 'to fasten' or 'fix in place.' The image is agricultural and practical: Romans pictured rows of vines fastened to trellises, and a 'pagina' was that orderly arrangement of lines fixed onto papyrus — the eye walking neat rows like a vineyard. It reached English through Old French 'page.' (The 'page' who fetches and carries is a different word entirely, from Italian 'paggio,' so don't let them share a trellis.)

word origin
From Latin pagina, meaning a vine staked in rows
royal job
A page was once a knight's teenage apprentice
paper standard
A4's proportions stay identical when folded in half
medieval flex
Scribes copied one page per day by hand
hidden act
To page someone means to summon by calling out
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