blueprint, n. 1. A reproduction of a technical drawing, white on blue, produced by a photosensitive process now obsolete. 2. The northerly that enters your coat before you do. 3. (archit.) A transparent overlay placed atop the body to reveal where the walking happened — not the route but the wearing: soles thinning at the ball, cartilage at the left knee softened by 11,339 repetitions of a question the pavement cannot answer. 4. (obsol.) A plan made before the weather. 5. The number of times a father's age appears hidden in a coastline, if you are willing to count. 6. (Wgtn. regional) The space between cloud layers where light falls through and you briefly believe the city was designed for you. 7. See also: wind-pattern, thought-pattern, circuit, desire path, family.