/ · 1894 Brewer’s · F · Feuilleton [feu-yĕ-ton]
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A fly-sheet. Applied to the bottom part of French newspapers, generally devoted to a tale or some other light literature.
“The daily [French] newspapers all had feuilletons with continued stories in them.”—Hale: Ten-times One, chap. viii. p. 125.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.