proof sheet

American  

noun

1. a printer's proof.

2. Photography. a contact print.

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Etymology

Origin of proof sheet

First recorded in 1615–25

Example Sentences

Instagram was a really nice way of starting to put the work out, and I think it is a real proof sheet of people’s work.

From Time • Jan. 18, 2016

I am now able to sit and to lie on my couch, and now and then to read a proof sheet of the Scriptures.

From Life of William Carey by Smith, George

This paper was a proof sheet, pure and simple, run by a girl homesteader who had worked on a Minneapolis paper.

From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Voorhies, Stephen J.

I have now, however, the pleasure of sending under a separate cover, the first proof sheet of your Lordship's Poem, which is so good as to be entitled to all your care to render perfect.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle

It accompanied, no doubt, the last proof sheet of Rob Roy, and was therefore in all probability written about ten days before the 31st of December, 1817—on which day the novel was published.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)