Meanings of counterfoil in English

He wrote rapidly, and finally tore the draft from its counterfoil and blotted it.

On the counterfoil is written this memorandum, For F. J.

Darling, why don't you make a note of your last balance on your counterfoil?

Just fancy being the counterfoil to some other man's cheque!

We're both cheques equally, and neither is a counterfoil.

He looked at it, and read the counterfoil of the cheque she had given to Alice Tynemouth.

He handed back the book to Lagune, open at the blank counterfoil of a cheque that had been removed.

Yes, there was the counterfoil, fresh as a new wound, from which indeed his bank account was profusely bleeding.

Mr. Weatherley remained for a moment in the chair where she had left him, gazing idly at the counterfoil of the cheque.

Idly I picked up the cheque-book-andabsently fingered the leaves-thenmy eye caught a counterfoil where I had chanced to open it.

He drew her to the writing-table on which his cheque-book still lay open at the place whence a cheque had been abstracted with its counterfoil.

Using rich brocades, silks, satins and velvets, Miki crafted figure-hugging cocktail dresses with a retro feel that were a fitting counterfoil for her gadget-studded accessories.

Consequently, if we go and look at the counterfoils and duplicates-

Her father then insisted upon her looking over his checkbook and reading the counterfoils.

One hand was full of papers, tickets, counterfoils of tourists.

The young woman turned over a sheaf of counterfoils.