A printer’s phrase to designate all kinds of work not included in the term “book-work.” The French call such work ouvrage de ville.
⁂ Allied to the Latin, op[us]; Spanish, ob[ra]; French, ouv[rage]; the r occurs in the genitive case, oper[is].
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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