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Permanently printed in time for fur (10)

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I believe the answer is:

inerasable

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'permanently printed' is the definition.
The answer and definition are different parts of speech. However, past participle verbs and adjectives occasionally mean the same thing.

'in time for fur' is the wordplay.
'time for' becomes 'era' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'fur' becomes 'sable' (sable is a kind of fur).
'in'+'era'+'sable'='INERASABLE'

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