galley proof

noun

Printing.

1. a proof, originally one set from type in a galley, taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections.

galley proof

noun

1. Often shortened to: galley. a printer's proof, esp one taken on a long strip of paper from type in a galley, used to make corrections before the matter has been split into pages

Word History and Origins

Origin of galley proof¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

I should have sent her the galley proofs the moment I received them.

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A math professor, of all people, gave me my first Murakami, an uncorrected galley proof of “The Elephant Vanishes” — a gateway drug to his brand of surrealism, which refuses to admit it is surreal.

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Dad pushed him out of the way and rushed into the bedroom, where his first son was sleeping in a by now battered bassinet, on a desk once again covered with galley proofs.

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The copy editor at Harcourt kept filling the margins of the galley proofs with questions: ‘How can it be before Europe but after Paris?’

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Also this week, local journalist and author Paulette Perhach said she was busy editing references to Alexie out of the galley proofs for her new book, “Welcome to the Writer’s Life.”

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