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Fair copy

noun

A clean copy of a corrected draft.

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"Fair copy" Quotes from Famous Books

... Abinger notebook contains the complete and final draft of Mathilda, 226 pages. It is for the most part a fair copy. The text is punctuated and there are relatively few corrections, most of them, apparently the result of a final rereading, made to avoid the repetition of words. A few additions are written in the margins. On several pages slips of paper containing evident revisions (quite ...

— Mathilda • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

... a fair copy of my extracts from Matthew's correspondence, and have returned the letters to Miss Judson, carefully packed in accordance with her request. I now await my Sheldon's next communication and the abatement of my influenza before ...

— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

... Jack had provided a fair copy of his father's will, engrossed in form upon a large skin of parchment, and resolving to act the part of a most dutiful son, he became the fondest creature of it imaginable. For although, as I have often told the reader, ...

— A Tale of a Tub • Jonathan Swift

... this morning he cannot find anything for Miss Galindo to do; and there she is, sitting with her pen behind her ear, waiting for something to write. I am come to find her my mother's letters, for I should like to have a fair copy made of them. O, here they are: don't trouble ...

— My Lady Ludlow • Elizabeth Gaskell

Words linked to "Fair copy" : copy, written matter