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Blue-pencil   Listen
verb
blue-pencil  v. t.  To change, delete, or abridge (a portion of a text) with a blue pencil (or as if with a blue pencil), as in the editing process; of books, etc.





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"Blue-pencil" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ostend, or in New South Wales; but at all events you will have the curry-comb. One can be good and happy without returning the things you borrow. See my "Essay on Books, Cartes-de-visite, and Umbrellas," in the next number of Sala's J—— (Editorial blue-pencil again.) ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, May 21, 1892 • Various


Words linked to "Blue-pencil" :   delete, edit, censor


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