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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A legible manuscript of a written work, often in the author's own hand and usually representing the work's revised and corrected form prior to publication.
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- noun A
handwritten document that has beenwritten neatly andcorrectly without scratch-outs and revisions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a clean copy of a corrected draft
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mollusque commented on the word fair copy
Another and final deception would come with the Fair Copy in which, for a short while, calligraphy, vellum paper, and India ink beautified a dead doggerel. And to think that for almost five years I kept trying and kept getting caught—until I fired that painted, pregnant, meek, miserable little assistant!
—Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 44
June 7, 2009