sketchingn.
/ˈskɛtʃɪŋ/ 1. The action of sketch v.; something sketched, a sketch. Also with down.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > outlining or sketching
sketching1824
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > drawing in specific manner
purfling1601
outlining1795
lining1823
sketching1824
free-hand1841
model-drawing1843
cartooning1846
line-work1895
1824 W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) II. 226 I enjoy the first conception and first sketchings down of my ideas.
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 198 You remember poor George's fondness for picturesque views and sketching.
1884 Athenæum 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. attributive, as sketching-basket, sketching-block, sketching-book, sketching-case, sketching-club, sketching-pencil, sketching-ramble, sketching-stool, sketching-tour, sketching-umbrella, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun] > club
sketching-club1843
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
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 123 In a sketching ramble—a charming morsel of the picturesque breaking out upon you.
1809 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. July 119 His bags, with all their hoard Of sketching-tools.
1810 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. Oct. 243 He..from his pocket took His pencil and his sketching-book.
1843 D. G. Rossetti Let. 7 July (1965) I. 16 There have been two meetings of the Sketching Club since your departure.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xiv. 133 A set of sketching materials.
1852 C. M. Yonge Two Guardians i. 9 They set off..Marian carrying her little sketching-basket.
1861 G. M. Musgrave By-roads in Picardy 45 Folding up my sketching stool and strapping it on to the havresac.
1865 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 86 Shewing a sketching-block, he asked if there would be any objection to his sketching there.
1874 R. St. J. Tyrwhitt Our Sketching Club 67 Get..a good sketching-block.
1890 C. M. Yonge More Bywords viii. 269 There's..our sketching tour in August.
1902 A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns x. 247 Beatrice, with easel and sketching-umbrella.
1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 375/1 Sketching umbrellas. Cream cover, lined green, wind valve, jointed stick, and spike, closes up to 34½ in.—42/-.
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sketchingadj.
That sketches; occupied with sketching.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [adjective] > that sketches
sketching1823
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. iv. 83 A sketching gentleman that lives..at the Cleek'um of Aultoun yonder.
Derivatives
ˈsketchingly adv.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [adverb] > while sketching
sketchingly1869
1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Aug. 10 Telling..how he himself had been guide to Horace Vernet as he rode sketchingly along to his namesake's dwelling-place.
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