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单词 foul copy
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foul copy
b. Designating a draft version of a manuscript or proof copy of a text which is marked up with editorial changes or corrections (often with the implication that those changes are extensive). Also more generally: full of errors, alterations, crossings out, etc. Chiefly in foul copy foul proof. Contrasted with clean adj. 3c, fair adj. 11e.See also foul papers n.
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society > communication > book > copy > [noun] > first copy with corrections
foul copy1629
society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > proof > proof with many faults
foul proof1755
1571 Dict. French & Eng. sig. S.iiiv/1 Maculatures & meschants papiers, fowle or waste papers.
1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) xxi. sig. E4v Acquaintance Is the first draught of a friend, whom we must lay downe oft thus, as the foule coppy.
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 470 The particulars in his hands were foul books and papers, out of which those he had returned were extracted.
1729 J. Gay Polly Pref. p. iii I take this occasion in the most solemn manner to affirm, that the very copy I delivered to Mr. Rich was written in my own hand some months before at the Bath from my own first foul blotted papers.
1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. 280 What is required of a Compositor when he goes about Correcting a foul Proof, is a sharp Bodkin, and Patience.
1758 J. Jortin Life Erasmus I. 46 He sent a foul Copy..to Ammonius, begging him to get it transcribed.
1899 Typogr. Jrnl. 2 Jan. 6/2 The ill-conditioned fellow who asserted that..the reason his proof was foul was because the reader had a personal grudge against him?
1987 Amer. Lit. 59 498 Our review volume exhibits twenty or more pages of foul copy.
2002 Papers Bibliogr. Soc. Amer. 96 172 Anyone associated with the text..could have made this correction; indeed, it could have been made by a printing house proofreader, on foul proofs, and misplaced by the compositor making the correction.
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