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. 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 Often shortened togalley

Word History and Origins

Origin of galley proof¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

The floor was littered with paper and proofs; on the desk a slip of galley proof lay.

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Your galley proof is brought down to you by a giant in shirt sleeves whom you look at with a shadowy feeling of remembrance.

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At the nearer one sat a dyspeptic man of middle age waving a heavy pencil above a galley proof.

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The reason for this extreme carefulness is that it costs much less to make changes in the galley proof than in the "page proof."

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I'll do the lino and the case warrk mysel' and pull a galley proof for ye too.

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