paste-upn.
/ˈpeɪstʌp/, U.S. /ˈpeɪstˈəp/ 1. A plan of a page or document with the sections of text, etc., pasted on it or represented by outlines.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > plan of page layout
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1913 Times 17 Sept. 22/2 The repeated sections [of a bank-note] were photographed separately and a paste-up of the complete design produced from these components by photo-lithography.
1949 D. Melcher & N. Larrick Printing & Promotion Handbk. 202/1 Extreme neatness is not necessary on a paste-up dummy.
1970 J. Dickey Deliverance i. 23 When they weren't working at layouts and paste-ups they would sit tilted back from the drawing board with their hands behind their heads.
2002 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 25 May (Pasco Times section) 1 Stay up all night proofing pasteups of the student newspaper.
2. A piece of paper or card with newspaper clippings or other fragments of text mounted on it; a collage. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > other visual arts > [noun] > collage
collage1919
papier collé1935
paste-up1944
papier déchiré1959
photocollage1961
1944 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 11 Mar. 8/6 Simple paper paste-ups a child could do.
1953 Amer. Speech 28 81 The D[ictionary of]A[mericanisms]..had the benefit of but a mere 300,000 quotation slips... Nor did this number represent fresh materials only, for it included thousands of paste-ups from its predecessors.
1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 June 682/1 His novel is a carefully constructed, defiantly random paste-up of faits divers.
1999 Phildelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 13 June md3 These images, done through digital means, collage and mixed media, are based on cubist-style pasteups.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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