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▪ I. sketching, vbl. n.|ˈskɛtʃɪŋ|
[f. sketch v.]
1. The action of the verb sketch; something sketched, a sketch. Also with down.
1824W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) II. 226, I enjoy the first conception and first sketchings down of my ideas. 1840Hood Up Rhine 215 You remember poor George's fondness for picturesque views and sketching. 1884Athenæum 5 Jan. 20/1 It was a crazy oddity with much scribbling and even schoolboy-like sketching by some one in the last century.
2. attrib., as sketching-basket, sketching-block, sketching-book, sketching-case, sketching-club, sketching-pencil, sketching-ramble, sketching-stool, sketching-tour, sketching-umbrella, etc.
1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life vi. xxxv, In a sketching ramble—a charming morsel of the picturesque breaking out upon you. 1812Combe Syntax, Picturesque iii. 212 His well-stuff'd bags, with all their hoard Of sketching-tools. Ibid. xviii. 70 He..from his pocket took His pencil and his sketching-book. 1843D. G. Rossetti Let. 7 July (1965) I. 16 There have been two meetings of the Sketching Club since your departure. 1848Dickens Dombey xiv, A set of sketching materials. 1852C. M. Yonge Two Guardians i. 9 They set off..Marian carrying her little sketching-basket. 1861G. M. Musgrave By-Roads France 45 Folding up my sketching stool and strapping it on to the havresac. 1865G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 86 Shewing a sketching-block, he asked if there would be any objection to his sketching there. 1874R. Tyrwhitt Our Sketching Club 67 Get..a good sketching-block. 1890C. M. Yonge More Bywords viii. 269 There's..our sketching tour in August. 1902A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns x. 247 Beatrice, with easel and sketching-umbrella. 1939–40Army & Navy Stores Catal. 375/1 Sketching umbrellas. Cream cover, lined green, wind valve, jointed stick, and spike, closes up to 34½ in.—42/-.
▪ II. ˈsketching, ppl. a.
[f. sketch v. + -ing2.]
That sketches; occupied with sketching. Hence ˈsketchingly adv.
1824Scott St. Ronan's iv, A sketching gentleman that lives..at the Cleikum of Aultoun yonder. 1869Pall Mall G. 16 Aug. 10 Telling..how he himself had been guide to Horace Vernet as he rode sketchingly along to his namesake's dwelling-place. |