Associations to the word «Counterfoil»

Wiktionary

COUNTERFOIL, noun. The part of a cheque that is retained in the chequebook as a record; a stub

Dictionary definition

COUNTERFOIL, noun. The part of a check that is retained as a record.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope