blue print

noun

Dated spelling of blueprint.

Meanings

nounblue print (plural blue prints)

plural blue prints

  1. Dated spelling of blueprint.

    1928: Men who can read blue prints are at a premium everywhere in this six billion dollar field. (Ad in Popular Science, March 1928)

    1 more example

    [Jeeves] was miffed because he wasn't the brains behind this binge, the blue prints for it having been laid down by a rival. Even great men have their weaknesses.

    1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
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Chicago

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