jour printers
jour printers is the plural of jour printer.
Meaning of jour printer
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
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- Jour printers is the plural of jour printer.
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