- a variation of draftsman.
draughtsman
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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
His skill as a draughtsman won him a few privileges, like being given fresh fruit juice by one of the guards whose portrait he drew.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2023
He was a brilliantly gifted draughtsman who never stopped drawing almost until the last day of his life.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2020
With all this renewed focus on this painter, etcher, printmaker, draughtsman, lover, fighter, genius and debtor, it’s fair to ask: Who is Rembrandt now?
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2019
It defies the skill of artist and draughtsman to sketch it before it is gone.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
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
As an artist he had a magnificent sense of composition, easily held his own in a generation of great draughtsmen: Sargent, Homer, Pennell, Abbey.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, as club-cars rattle home in the 'fagend of early summer afternoons, the dice click on the board with the raised sides, the draughtsmen move from point to point, doubles are exchanged, and money.*
From Time Magazine Archive
They, not only from having a special gift of comedy, but from having presumably studied, or been interested in, the work of other draughtsmen, might confidently be expected to know their own minds.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various
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