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broadsheet|ˈbrɔːdʃiːt|
[f. broad a. + sheet.]
A large sheet of paper printed on one side only; = broadside n. 3. Also attrib.
1705Hearne Coll. (1885–6) I. 18 A new Edition..on a Broad Sheet. 1874Motley J. Barneveld II. xviii. 252 Ballad-mongers and broadsheet vendors. 1878― Diderot II. 18 Pamphlets, broadsheets, sarcasms flew over Paris.
▸ A newspaper consisting of large, folded sheets, printed on both sides; (in later use) esp. a type of newspaper with this format, considered to contain serious, in-depth journalism (cf. quality newspaper n. at quality n. and adj. Compounds 1c(b)); now often contrasted with tabloid.
1840Times 18 Mar. 3/6 The petition..from the printers of The Times and Morning Post newspapers..that if no action could be brought in respect of the blue book [i.e. Hansard], no action should be brought in respect of any identical extract from it being printed in the broad sheet. 1858N.Y. Times 22 Sept. 2/4, I have not seen your paper of this morning, some more early-rising admirer of your broad sheet having surreptitiously transferred it from the stoop into his own possession. 1963Econ. Jrnl. 73 290 In the bigger ‘national’ market,..one can easily visualise two or three survivors, of rather different types—say a tabloid picture paper and a broadsheet text one. 1976Lat. Amer. (Nexis) 18 June 189 Expreso was transformed from a publication on the brink of closure to one capable of carrying out a costly change from tabloid to broadsheet format. 1998Guardian 11 June ii. 5/5 The broadsheets..had a smuggy view of all this sex and passion. |