- a variation of draftsman.
draughtsman
Americannoun
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Also called (feminine): draughtswoman. a person who practises or is qualified in mechanical drawing, employed to prepare detailed scale drawings of machinery, buildings, devices, etc
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Also called (feminine): draughtswoman. a person skilled in drawing
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US and Canadian equivalent: checker. any of the 12 flat thick discs used by each player in the game of draughts
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A pioneer in the pop art movement in the 1960s, Hockney established himself as a globally renowned painter and master draughtsman and kept painting, experimenting and exhibiting right up until his death.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
He ran his own millwright business, with John's eldest two brothers, David, a millwright, and Alexander, a mechanical draughtsman.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024
At the time, few knew that the creators of Superman, the scenarist Jerry Siegel and the draughtsman Joe Shuster, were children of Jewish immigrants.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2020
Utamaro was a draughtsman who contributed prodigiously to the production of ukiyo-e, the prints that depicted the gracious women of the floating world.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2017
And, even in early glass, thin paint was used, whether to subdue crude colour or to indicate what little shading a 13th-century draughtsman might desire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
Partners like Renzo and Norman were wonderful draughtsmen and I never was.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2013
These are replicated by a choreographed band of draughtsmen, whose somewhat fussy charade of the industrial production of art compensates for a degree of inertia in the words and music.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2013
Unemployed draughtsmen and department stores are not the only people to benefit.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a matter of some surprise to old-line, pre-Depression financiers that Douglas Aircraft Co., managed by these draughtsmen and joystick-wielders, has made money.
From Time Magazine Archive
Magnificent drinking-vessels, beautifully ornamented dice and draughtsmen, masses of gay beads, are among the commonest grave-finds.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
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