spadia
n.— «I’ve learned more about the Chronilog, comics (that fold that covers half of the Sunday comics is called a “spadia”) and the weather page in a little over a month as reader representative than in my entire 14 years at the Chronicle.» —“What’s a reader representative, anyway?” by James T. Campbell Houston Chronicle July 29, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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