galley proof

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nounPrinting.
  1. 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.

Origin of galley proof

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First recorded in 1885–90

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How to use galley proof in a sentence

  • The floor was littered with paper and proofs; on the desk a slip of galley proof lay.

    The Weight of the Crown | Fred M. White
  • Your 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 Gardiner
  • At the nearer one sat a dyspeptic man of middle age waving a heavy pencil above a galley proof.

    The Clarion | Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • The 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 Tappan
  • I'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

galley proof

noun
  1. 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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