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单词 sketch-book
释义 ˈsketch-book
[f. sketch n.]
1. A book having leaves of drawing-paper specially reserved or adapted for making sketches in.
1837Lockhart Scott IV. vi. 197 Encountering some odd figure, armed with a sketch-book, evidently bent on a peep at the Great Unknown.1848Thackeray Van. Fair lxii, Dobbin used to carry about for her her stool and sketch⁓book.1884Harper's Mag. Feb. 338/2 My friends take their sketch-books.
b. As the title of a book containing essays or studies of a more or less descriptive nature.
1820Irving (title), The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.1843Thackeray (title), The Irish Sketch-Book.
2. A note-book containing a composer's preliminary sketches or studies.
1883Grove's Dict. Music III. 528 Beethoven..left behind him a whole library of Sketch-books.Ibid. 529 Some of the Sketch-books in the Royal Library at Berlin.
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