abbreviation of STEREOTYPE (lit. and fig.); also attrib., as stereo forme, -matter, -metal, etc.
1823. ‘Jon Bee,’ Dict. Turf, 166. Stereo, abbreviated from stereotype, one of the cheap-and-nasty manufactures in this country, the pages being usually left incorrect and blunderous, in pursuance of the saving plan which first suggested casting them in stereo.
1880. F. J. F. Wilson, Stereotyping & Electrotyping, 49. Small Stereo Foundries.
1880. Q. Rev., CL. 533. Firms which deal in stereo-matter.
1883. Athenæum, 22 Dec., 811/1. We have not compared the two issues line for line together; but on a cursory examination they appear to owe their origin to the same set of stereos.
1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 23 Nov., 2. It is printed on the flat, from six stereo formes.
1888. Jacobi, Printers’ Vocab., 132–3.
1896. G. B. Shaw, in Sat. Rev., 18 April, 397/2. The best part of the entertainment is Mr. Osmond Carr’s music—mere stereo, no doubt, much of it, but smart, appropriate stereo.
1897. Tilden, Man. Chem., 531. Stereo-metal is also a mixture of lead, tin, and antimony.
1901. Daily Chron., 13 Dec., 4/5. The old, hammered ‘stereos’ of the cricket reporter.
