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sketchbook

UK/ˈskɛt͡ʃˌbʊk/US/ˈskɛt͡ʃˌbʊk/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,933 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: sketchbooks

A sketchbook is a book of blank pages for drawing in. Fill a sketchbook.

It is meant to be private, which is why the good ones are full of failures. An artist's sketchbook is often more interesting than the finished work.

sanya · Public domain

Definitions of sketchbook

  1. 1nounsketchbookA book of blank pages for drawing in.C1

    “The sketchbook was full in nine weeks and mostly of hands.”

sketchbook is a book.

Where it comes from

Sketch plus book, from Italian schizzo, a rough drawing.

From sketch + book.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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sketchbook in the wild

  • Some also use sketchbooks as a sort of blueprint for future art pieces.

    Sketchbook

  • Stephen Foster's sketchbook is the hand-written book authored by early American composer and lyricist Stephen Collins Foster.

    Stephen Foster's sketchbook

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.