whiteprint

American  

[hwahyt-print, wahyt-] / ˈʰwaɪtˌprɪnt, ˈwaɪt- /

noun

Printing.

1. a proof print made by means of the diazo process.

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Etymology

Origin of whiteprint

1915–20; white + print, on the model of blueprint

Example Sentences

Mr. van Pelt describes the crematoria and the whiteprint as “a nadir in the history of architecture.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

I acquired the whiteprint earlier this year from the Temple of the Arts Synagogue in Beverly Hills, into whose possession it had come by way of a friend of a congregant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

Robert Jan van Pelt, a professor of architecture at Canada’s University of Waterloo—the foremost historian of Nazi concentration-camp architecture—authenticated the whiteprint in 2016.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025