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French
Etymology
From imprimer + -eur.
Pronunciation
Noun
imprimeur m (plural imprimeurs, feminine imprimeuse)
- printer; operator of a printing press
- 1864, Rudolf Charles, Preface to Testament by Jean Meslier, page 13
La caisse était à sec et chargée de dettes au marchand de papier, à l’imprimeur etc., grâce à notre imprudence à nous charger de l’impression des quelques essais que nous avait promis Mr B., mais qui formèrent bientôt un ouvrage volumineux...- The cash register was empty and loaded with debts to the paper merchant, to the printer, etc., thanks to our imprudence in taking charge of the printing of a few essays which Mr B. had promised us, but which soon formed a voluminous work...
1927, Marcel Proust, chapter 4, in Le Temps retrouvé [Time Regained] (À la recherche du temps perdu):Au besoin Françoise ne pourrait-elle pas m’aider à les consolider, de la même façon qu’elle mettait des pièces aux parties usées de ses robes, ou qu’à la fenêtre de la cuisine, en attendant le vitrier comme moi l’imprimeur, elle collait un morceau de journal à la place d’un carreau cassé?- Could not Francoise help me to mend them in the same way as she stuck pieces on worn parts of her dresses, or awaiting the glazier as I did the printer, when she stuck a bit of newspaper in a window instead of the glass pane?
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