单词 | sketchbook |
释义 | sketchbookn. 1. a. A book having leaves of drawing-paper specially reserved or adapted for making sketches in. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > surface for painting or drawing > paper > drawing book drawing book1672 flower-book1753 sketchbook1837 block1865 sketching-block1865 sketch-pad1961 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott IV. vi. 197 Encountering some odd figure, armed with a sketch-book, evidently bent on a peep at the Great Unknown. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxii. 560 Dobbin used to carry about for her her stool and sketch-book. 1884 Harper'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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > [noun] > short sketch or description > collection of sketchbook1820 1820 Irving (title) The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. 1843 W. M. Thackeray (title) The Irish Sketch-Book. 2. A notebook containing a composer's preliminary sketches or studies. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > composer's notebook sketchbook1883 1883 G. Grove Dict. Music III. 528 Beethoven..left behind him a whole library of Sketch-books. 1883 G. Grove Dict. Music III. 529 Some of the Sketch-books in the Royal Library at Berlin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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