galley proof
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.
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The floor was littered with paper and proofs; on the desk a slip of galley proof lay.
The Weight of the Crown | Fred M. WhiteYour galley proof is brought down to you by a giant in shirt sleeves whom you look at with a shadowy feeling of remembrance.
Windfalls | (AKA Alpha of the Plough) Alfred George GardinerAt the nearer one sat a dyspeptic man of middle age waving a heavy pencil above a galley proof.
The Clarion | Samuel Hopkins AdamsThe reason for this extreme carefulness is that it costs much less to make changes in the galley proof than in the "page proof."
Makers of Many Things | Eva March TappanI'll do the lino and the case warrk mysel' and pull a galley proof for ye too.
When It Was Dark | Guy Thorne
British Dictionary definitions for galley proof
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 to: galley
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