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

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proof sheet

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 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 Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle

Life is the proof sheet, in which the compositors' errors are brought to light.

From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders

Each time I found him in his counting house, with his cap on-- shading his eyes: a pen in his right hand, and a proof sheet in his left.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

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 Stephen J. Voorhies