Definitions
A photographic copy made by an older copying process.
Word origin
A genericization from the trade name of one of the earliest commercially successful types of photocopier, a pre-xerography type. Xerography displaced it in the 1960s and 1970s; since then the relics of it are historical curiosities. More in Wikipedia at Photostat machine.
Used in a sentence
“Near-synonyms: photocopy, xerox, xerograph, copy (all broadly synonymous)”
“The next morning […] her suitcase was gone and a photostat of a wedding licence was on her bed, the print smudged here and there.”
“Near-synonyms: photocopier, copier (both contextually synonymous); xerographer, xerox (broadly synonymous)”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Old copier output”9 letters
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