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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In type-founding, the trial proof taken by the punch-cutter or engraver. The steel punch is held over a smoking flame until covered with carbon, and is then impressed by hand on slightly dampened paper.
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Examples
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Changes include wider stairwells, as well as smoke-proof evacuation roofs.
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These included the building of fire escape routes as well as fire and smoke-proof doors and walls.
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Each flue must be separated by smoke-proof "withes" or divisions, usually half a brick in thickness; connexion between them causes smoky chimneys.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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It smoked considerably, but Eskimos are smoke-proof.
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