print-workn.
/ˈprɪntwəːk/, U.S. /ˈprɪntˌwərk/ 1. † a. Esp. in embroidery: lettering imitating printed characters. Obsolete.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > resembling print
print hand1676
print-work1786
print letters1800
script1920
print script1922
1786 Daily Universal Reg. 3 June 1/4 (advt.) Embroidery warehouse... Landscapes, figures, fruit, flowers, and several very curious pieces of print work.
1797 ‘English Lady’ Resid. in France II. 411 Print-work and embroidery represent scenes from novels.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 68 But never was MS. so illegible..as the print-work of that sampler.
b. Printed matter; printed type, often as distinguished from illustrations, etc.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun]
print1507
typography1644
matter1683
presswork1728
printed matter1836
the printed word1846
literature1859
printing ink1904
print-work1919
1919 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News & Sentinel 1 Feb. 8/3 (advt.) Dual installation of press equipment will make it possible for us to deliver print work in quantities on rush orders.
1939 Syracuse (N.Y.) Jrnl. 20 Mar. d9/1 (advt.) Now, more than ever, does the Remington Noiseless surpass any other typewriter built in the beauty of its matchless printwork, faultless manifolding and clean-cut stencils.
1973 Internat. Affairs 49 127 It is outrageously expensive—£6 for 200 pages of IBM-set, offset litho printwork, without justified margins, without an index.
2006 Gloucestershire Echo (Nexis) 31 May 5 Other duties..include..putting together the quarterly newsletters produced by each group, along with brochures and other printwork.
2. Usually in plural (frequently with singular agreement). A factory in which fabrics are printed.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > other surface-printing > [noun] > textiles > factory for printing
printfield1742
print-work1800
print house1815
printery1826
print ground1839
1800 T. Garnett Observ. on Tour through Highlands I. 98 A great number of cotton mills and print works have been erected, and bleach fields erected in the neighbourhood of Perth.
1822 Times 6 Feb. 4/4 Died... At the Cottage, Wandsworth Calico Print Works, most deservedly regretted, Ann Sophia.
1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. ii. 54 A large print-work..consists of several distinct departments, such as the mechanical department, the chemical department, the artistic or designing department, the printing department, &c.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 525/1 We may..enumerate some of the principal trade wastes; these are from dye-works, print works, [etc.].
1975 A. H. Little Water Supplies & Treatm. & Disposal of Effluents (BNC) 30 The character of the waste from a dyehouse or printworks could alter considerably with changes in the textile processing arising from variation in the materials handled.
1990 World Outside: Career Guide 29/1 (advt.) In April 1989, the John Lewis Partnership has 22 department stores and 85 Waitrose supermarkets. Ancillary to these are a textile print works and weaving mill.
3. Artwork or designs produced from an engraved or etched metal plate, wooden block, etc.; (in quot. 1865) the template from which such work is produced.
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1865 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. London 28 2 I was shown some cotton cloths, printed with dyes brought from India, of a pattern and sort printed by the first Sir Robert Peel, that were to be sent out to India and sold there, cloth, printwork, and all.
1929 Manitoba Free Press 10 June 13/5 Hiroshi Yoshida..is known as the father of modern color print work in Japan. Out of a block of wood he makes a thing of tender, fragile, beauty.
1965 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post Crescent 23 May c3/5 The exhibit will include paintings, drawings, printwork, wood, sculpture, ceramics, stitchery and wall hangings.
2003 C. Murray Key Writers on Art 146 Painting and sculpture are..‘autographic’: a genuine instance must trace its causal provenance to the artist's hand or, as in the cases of cast sculpture and print work, to a model or template that has come from the artist's hand.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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