blue-print

A form of blueprint — A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images by means of a photosensitive ferric compound, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.

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Meanings

nounblue-print (plural blue-prints)

plural blue-prints

  1. alternativedatedAlternative spelling of blueprint.

    One day he brought from the barracks a roll of blue-prints, and as he was locking them in a drawer, said: “The Germans would pay through the nose for those!”

    1915, Richard Harding Davis, Somewhere in France, p. 4
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APA

blue-print. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blue-print

MLA

“blue-print.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blue-print. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blue-print,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blue-print.

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