| 单词 | reading boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreading boy reading boy n. now historical (in a printing office) a boy who reads copy aloud to a proofreader. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printer > readers, collators, etc. > [noun] > proof-reader's assistant reading boy1808 copy-holder1888 1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 392 The eye of the reader should not follow, but rather go before the voice of his reading-boy. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 710/1 The reading department, sometimes called the closet, having for its occupants the reader and his reading-boy. 1937 in C. Day Lewis Mind in Chains 206 Worked as reading-boy and apprentice compositor. 1996 Music & Lett. 77 361 In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, proof correction of literary texts was..usually performed orally. A reading boy read from the original copy, while the corrector followed and marked up the proofs. < as lemmas |
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