Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apartment containing a collection of prints or engravings.
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Examples
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Based on an obscure advertising jingle from the late 19th century, "The New York Times Color March" was written and composed-amid the paper's historic 1997 switch to color-by Carl Schlesinger, one of the paper's retired print-room operators and an eccentric historian and amateur tap dancer.
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The second technician sprinted for refuge in the smaller print-room next door.
Penalty Francis, Dick 1997
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Then with each of us looping an arm under Rudd's armpits we dragged him into the comparative quic t of the secondary print-room next door and propped him in a chair.
Penalty Francis, Dick 1997
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When at the British Museum, a few years ago, I asked Mr. Sidney Colvin about the Martins in his print-room.
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
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In the print-room of the British Museum are two of his drawings, highly finished in water-colours, being unquestionably the originals of plates eight and forty-one of De Bry's Florida.
Thomas Hariot Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886 1885
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But she knew very well that fashionable London was talking and thinking of nothing else; she heard that the print-room of the
The Marriage of William Ashe Humphry Ward 1885
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I'll get an order for the print-room at the British Museum.
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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The original drawing, and a fine impression of the engraving, is preserved in the illustrated Grainger's _History of England_, in the print-room at the British Museum.
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Italian masters, and all rare or curious, were deposited in the print-room of the same establishment; his antiquities, &c. were in a similar way added to the other departments.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807
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All the time, meanwhile, she maintains her penthouse studio and print-room at the Fashion & Textile Museum in Bermondsey, where she undertakes private design commissions, for royalty and rock stars including Princess Michael of Kent, Debbie
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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