printshop

Etymology

From print + shop.

noun

  1. A shop that sells prints.
    He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess
  2. (chiefly Canada, US) A shop providing commercial copying and printing services.
  3. (uncommon) Synonym of printing house, an institutional or commercial mass publisher.
    As we have seen, government regulated the number of printshops throughout the realm … and enforced censorship throughout the land. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 263

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