Meaning of jour printer | Babel Free

Definitions

A journeyman printer — referring to both a man's profession and his status within his trade or company.

US, historical, obsolete

Examples

“1894, Henry Clay Vedder, American Writers Of To-Day, p. 126; passage refers to Mark⟳ Twain's youth in the 1830s United States 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⟳, and with certainty of employment almost anywhere he might go, or of assistance from his fellows in the craft, thanks to a sort⟳ of free-masonry that prevailed everywhere among them. He might work⟳ his passage all around the continent and see⟳ life in all its phases, as no man of any other trade⟳ or profession could.”

“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; […]”

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