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Printer's devil   /prˈɪntərz dˈɛvəl/   Listen
Printer's devil

noun
1.
An apprentice in a printing establishment.





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"Printer's devil" Quotes from Famous Books



... school, and I obeyed his praiseworthy request until visions of literary greatness and renown began to dawn upon me, whereupon, prompted by gingerbread and ambition, and being moreover aided and abetted by another printer's devil of tender years and literary aspirations, I, one Sunday morning, entered the printing office, (of which I kept the key,) and assisted by my companion, set up and worked off one hundred copies of a diminutive periodical just six inches square, containing a very brief abstract ...
— My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson - Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. • George Thompson


Words linked to "Printer's devil" :   prentice, learner, apprentice


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