line copy
Americannoun
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But so many women were buying and wearing boys' sizes that two years later Bass launched a feminine version that was a line for line copy of the original.
From New York Times
In MSS., unlike printed books, the first words of the second leaf will be different in any two copies, say, of the Bible; the scribes did not make a page for page or line for line copy of their archetype—in fact, they may probably have avoided doing so purposely.
From Project Gutenberg
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