Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room in which types are set and made ready for printing.
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Examples
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The lone man in charge of the Copy desk, just returned from a bitter argument with the composing-room foreman, watched him sourly as he passed, and grimly sharpened a blue pencil.
Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010
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And the type-setter comes out of the composing-room and warns them: "Gentlemen, we still don't have a leader for tomorrow's issue".
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Pamela, and found a job in the composing-room of the Evening News.
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Jeffreys would be reaching in the left bottom drawer of his scarred old desk for his little package of bread and cheese with an apple or a banana to top it off; he always ate that twenty-five minutes after midnight, just before the linotype men and the rest of the composing-room staff, who ate at the all-night restaurant around the corner, straggled back to their work.
Every Man for Himself Hopkins Moorhouse
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When he entered the composing-room he was invariably received with a cheer by the men, whom he called "my Caxtonian Bees."
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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There were then engaged in the composing-room a foreman and eight compositors, one of whom, G.orge G. Bailey, subsequently became foreman, and later one of the proprietors.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 Various
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The entire fourth floor is used as a composing-room, where stand "frames" for ninety-six compositors; the foreman and his assistants have each a private office, and a private room is assigned to the proofreaders.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 Various
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He had first learned the value of it in many a clandestine game of poker, which he had condescended to play of a Saturday afternoon in a corner of the deserted composing-room.
Every Man for Himself Hopkins Moorhouse
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Herald: the first-named in the business department, the next three on the editorial staff, and the last as foreman of the composing-room.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 Various
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Nothing short of dynamite, can "kill" a "good story," once it has gone to the composing-room.
The Last Woman Ross Beeckman
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