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foundry proof

American  

noun

Printing.

  1. a proof pulled for a final checking before printing plates are made.

foundry proof British  

noun

  1. printing a proof taken from a forme before duplicate plates are made from it

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He had read the galley proofs, the page proofs, and now at last the black-bordered foundry proofs.

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The foundry proofs are the last proofs pulled.

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A few more months will suffice to blur the memory of those irrevocable, nauseating foundry proofs.

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