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draftswoman

American  
[drafts-woom-uhn] / ˈdræftsˌwʊm ən /

noun

draftswomen plural
  1. a woman employed in making mechanical drawings.

  2. a woman who draws sketches, plans, or designs.

  3. a female artist exceptionally skilled in drawing.


Gender

See -woman.

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Her mother, a draftswoman and illustrator, came from Francophone Switzerland, and the family spoke French at home.

From Washington Post Aug. 15, 2022

Her earliest works — mostly highly detailed drawings from the 1960s — reveal the hand of a precociously skilled draftswoman.

From New York Times Jun. 27, 2018

A latter-day surrealist and the most versatile draftswoman, Ms. Neri drew and painted horses, dinosaurs, advertising signage, male and female nudes, and other images in crude and refined ways, creating streams of restless, disjunctive consciousness.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2014

At the time Ms. Doctorow was a gifted 27-year-old draftswoman strongly influenced by Vaclav Vytlacil, the modernist painter she studied under around the same time as Louise Bourgeois.

From New York Times Oct. 12, 2012

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