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1852 San Diego Herald 10 Jan. 2/1 The new ‘lay out’, at the Wholesale Commission Warehouse and store..on California street, proves quite attractive.

1888 Harper's Mag. July 285/1 Although the conception of its lay-out dates back nearly half a century, the tree planting that has added so much to Washington was begun only in 1872.

1895 Forum (N.Y.) Sept. 80 In the lay-out and construction of a very considerable part of the railway service of this country.

1898 C. O. Parmenter Hist. Pelham, Mass. 158 A portion of the town is south of the original layout.

1900 I. P. Roberts (title) The Farmstead, the Making of the Rural Home, and the Lay-out of the Farm.

1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 212 The day's lay-out—the mornin' sun Beneath your 'at-brim as you sight; The dinner-'ush from noon till one, And the full roar that lasts till night.

1905 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 9) i. ii. 15 In many books on garden design the authors misuse words... One..writes ‘lay-out’ for ‘plan’.

1923 Radio Times 28 Sept. 28 (advt.) The lay-out [of a radio set] is neat and compact; the cabinet work distinctive.

1930 Oxf. Times 14 Mar. 13 A new ‘lay-out’ plan from the builders was before the meeting.

1931 H. G. Wells Work, Wealth & Happiness Mankind (1932) 2 Almost all our political and administrative boundaries, the ‘layout’ of the human population, have become..misfits.

1937 Discovery Feb. 47/2 In the planning of new factories.., the engineer and the industrial psychologist should..ensure that, both in the general lay-out and in the smallest details, due regard is paid to the view-point of the men who will actually be doing the work.

1937 D. Runyon More than Somewhat i. 7 I go to see Mr. Tuesday at a Fifth Avenue hotel where he makes his home, and where he has a very swell layout of rooms.

1939 Flight 9 Nov. 373/2 The senior pilots of a ferry unit must remember the layout, characteristics, and fuel systems of as many as ten or a dozen machines.

1941 W. S. Churchill Secret Session Speeches (1946) 37 I am satisfied that up to the present a good lay-out of our available forces has been made.

1943 J. B. Priestley Daylight on Sat. xxv. 195 Both of 'em are up against a pretty tough problem on floor space and general lay-out.

1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 179 A layout was begun for a new medium bomber to replace the Hampden.

1960 Observer 24 Jan. 5/2 How they broke in in the first place depended on the layout. It could be through a lavatory window or by tunnelling laboriously from next door.

1962 Which? Car Suppl. Oct. 129/1 The pedal control layouts on the Peugeot 403B..were generally liked.

1964 McCall's Sewing in Colour ii. 30/1 Layout, the way the pattern pieces are placed on the fabric for cutting.

1974 J. Wainwright Hard Hit 131 The house—this ‘Diasc Farm’ place— tell me about it. The layout. The approach. The grounds.

1910 Brit. Printer Feb.–Mar. p. lxv (advt.) The Printer will be enabled to submit to his customer both original and artistic lay-outs.

1910 E. G. Gress Art & Pract. Typogr. 35/1 Every printshop should have a ‘layout’ man.

1913 Technical World XIX. 464 And the strange part of it is that from two to five good news picture layouts are made daily and enlarged in this small room.

1933 Planning 1 vii. 2 A few years ago individualism in advertising would have rejected without hesitation the discipline of lay-out and design which has been accepted with such good effect this time.

1946 A. Monkman in H. Whetton Pract. Printing & Binding vii. 81/1 It is necessary also for the layout man to be expert in copying the numerous type faces. This is not so very important if the layout is for the compositor, because all he requires for his work is the general plan, indicating type sizes and faces and allocations of white space; but when the layout is for the client, markings showing type sizes and other particulars are not necessary. The sketch should be a clear indication of the appearance of the finished job.

1948 H. Missingham Student's Guide Commerc. Art ii. 157 To see a first-class ‘visualizer’ romp through one with a flat~leaded layout pencil is a sight to stir the blood.

1955 M. Reifer Dict. New Words 119/2 Layout,..2. Cartoon Animation... The combined elements of the animation procedure which prescribe the relationship of characters and backgrounds to define a scene and its properties.

1958 Clarendonian XII. 198 Throughout his service at the Press he has shown great interest in the Layout Department and has been responsible for the design of many Oxford books.

1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation iii. 215 He [sc. the director] works closely with the lay-out artist, who in most studios is also the designer.

1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes iii. 46 The layout man usually receives the reading matter in typewritten form, along with glossy photographs, line drawings or other artwork.

1968 J. R. Biggs Basic Typogr. 122/2 The lay~out which goes to the printer with the typographic instructions ‘marked up’..should be quite accurate with nothing left to chance.

1869 A. K. McClure 3,000 Miles through Rocky Mts. 219 His [sc. a miner's] necessities are appreciated by the other owners, who get up a most expensive ‘lay-out’ for him.

1882 H. H. Kane Opium-smoking iii. 32 (heading) Description of the ‘lay-out’, pipe, etc.

1887 in Amer. Speech (1948) 23 247 A person that had a private layout in his room.

1891 H. Campbell Darkness & Daylight (1895) xxviii. 565 A small room at the rear of the temple contained an opium ‘lay-out’ for two persons.

1891 H. Campbell Darkness & Daylight (1895) xxviii. 565 In the center of the platform was a tray which contained the smoker's ‘lay-out’.

1898 ‘M. Twain’ in Cosmopolitan Aug. 426/1 Of all the barbarous layouts that were ever contrived, this was the most atrocious.

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues Gloss. 376/1 Layout, set of instruments used to smoke opium.

1867 in Amer. Speech (1942) 17 71/1 A ‘lay-out’ is any proposed enterprise, from organizing a State to digging out a prairie-dog.

1901 S. E. White Claim Jumpers i. 17 We won't take any chances on this layout, and that I can tell you.

1901 S. E. White Westerners xxxi. 292 ‘I'm sorry that I have this to do, Billy,’ said Lafond. ‘I don't want to. It's none of my lay-out.’

1904 W. H. Smith Promoters ii. 53 There isn't a single move in this whole lay-out that we can't justify by history.

1928 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 4 Feb. 81/3 Here's the layout. The bonds bear 6 per cent.

1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. vii. 142 Layout, setup, a trickster's plan of action.

1869 Overland Monthly Aug. 128/1 Several persons in our ‘lay-out’ (i.e., our company) in New Mexico ‘swapped’ good American horses for mustangs.

1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxiii. 538 It would be astonishin' for that lootenint and his layout to git into the fort without a skrimmage.

1884 ‘C. E. Craddock’ In Tennessee Mts. iii. 143 All them Peels, the whole lay-out, war gone down to the Settlement.

1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy vii. 47 Surround this layout, lads, and let's examine them more closely.

1904 W. N. Harben Georgians 203 I'm a-goin' to close in on that Clegg lay-out to-night, an' locate the'r still.

1927 W. Rogers in C. M. Russell Trails plowed Under p. xiii I tell you they was a pretty sad lookin outfit. They sho was a lonesome layout.