jour printer
jour printer noun: a journeyman printer — referring to both a man's profession and his status within his trade or company.
Noun
jour printer (plural jour printers)
- A journeyman printer — referring to both a man's profession and his status within his trade or company.
- When the lad had acquired enough skill to call himself a journeyman printer he set out to see the world, and his native State thenceforth saw little of him. Those were the halcyon days of the "jour" printer; the world was all before him where to choose. He set out, with no kit of tools to carry...1894, Henry Clay Vedder, American Writers Of To-Day, p. 126; passage refers to Mark Twain's youth in the 1830s United States
- The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, / He turns his quid of tobacco while his eyes blurr with the manuscript; […]1855, Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, stanza 15
Forms of jour printer
| plural | jour printers |
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Origin of jour printer
From jour + printer.
Questions about jour printer
- What does jour printer mean?
- Jour printer means a journeyman printer — referring to both a man's profession and his status within his trade or company.
- What part of speech is jour printer?
- Jour printer is a noun.
- What is the plural of jour printer?
- The plural of jour printer is jour printers.
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