COUNTERFOIL • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Counterfoil

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Counterfoil n.

That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; called also counterstock. (Eng.)

The part of a writing (as the stub of a bank check) in which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding part, which has been issued.

See images of 'Counterfoil'

Etymology of 'Counterfoil'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Counterfoil" Quotes from Famous Books

... hundred pounds sterling—the real sinews of war. This was the man whose business it was to call up the Reservists, and he had a very simple way of doing it. He had several books containing large forms divided by perforation into four parts. The first was a counterfoil on which was written the Reservist's name and the date of posting the order; the second was a railway warrant requesting the railway company to furnish him with a ticket available by the most direct route from his place of residence to the depot; the ...

— The Relief of Mafeking • Filson Young

... of Mr. Wells—one of the beast folk; while the murderous henchman, Ricardo, is unpleasantly put before us. I like the girl; it would have been so easy to spoil her with moralising; but the Baron is the magnet, and, as a counterfoil, the diabolical German hotel keeper. There is too much arbitrary handling at the close for my taste. Only in the opening chapters of Victory does Mr. Conrad pursue his oblique method of taletelling; the ...

— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker

... had lived through a fairy-tale, sank into his chair. Did such ridiculous things happen? He turned to his cheque-book. Yes, there was the counterfoil, fresh as a new wound, from which indeed his ...

— Prose Fancies • Richard Le Gallienne

... moment the trader sat lost in thought. Then, quite suddenly, he stirred, and reached the check book lying on the desk. He wrote rapidly, and finally tore the draft from its counterfoil and blotted it. Then he looked up, and his smiling amiability ...

— The Heart of Unaga • Ridgwell Cullum

... surroundings of the villa into which the gay assembly now entered is one of the most vivid and one of the gayest pieces of description in the brilliant counterfoil which the author has contrived, to set off the gloom of the city, it is worth giving entire; being as well a noble example of ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various