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

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 am now able to sit and to lie on my couch, and now and then to read a proof sheet of the Scriptures.

From Life of William Carey by Smith, George

For illustrations of these corrections, the reader may examine the specimen proof sheet on page 276.

From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)

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 Voorhies, Stephen J.

Then he caught at a proof sheet, and catched up a laundress's bill instead—made a dart at Blomfield's Poems, and threw them in agony aside.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)