printshop
See also: print shop
Contents
1 English
1.1 Alternative forms
1.2 Etymology
1.3 Pronunciation
1.4 Noun
1.4.1 Translations
English
Alternative forms
- print shop
Etymology
From print + shop.
Pronunciation
(UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɪntʃɒp/
Noun
printshop (plural printshops)
- A shop where one can buy prints; a printseller's.
1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess[1]:- He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
(chiefly Canada, US) A shop offering commercial printing services; a printery or printing house.
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 263:
- As we have seen, government regulated the number of printshops throughout the realm [...] and enforced censorship throughout the land.
Translations
printing house — see printing house