sketchbook

or sketch book

[ skech-boo k ]

/ ˈskɛtʃˌbʊk /

noun

Also sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.

a book of literary sketches.

Nearby words

Origin of sketchbook

First recorded in 1810–20; sketch + book

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Examples from the Web for sketchbook

But the Sketchbook Project confines itself to restricting only submissions that might endanger the staff.
Blurred Lines at NY Sketchbook Museum|Daniel Genis|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Instead, your $25 entry fee gets you a sketchbook that appears handmade.
Blurred Lines at NY Sketchbook Museum|Daniel Genis|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Sketchbook Project is trying to change our relationship with art.
Blurred Lines at NY Sketchbook Museum|Daniel Genis|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hicks travels with a tiny loom, the way other artists carry a sketchbook or point-and-shoot camera.
Woven Idols|Blake Gopnik|May 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST

But Bomb is content to be a sketchbook, a collage of ideas and scenes—a memoir.
Why Some Memoirs Are Better As Fiction|Taylor Antrim|January 19, 2010|DAILY BEAST
This sketchbook contains first of all the two new finales for the opera.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume II (of 3)|Alexander Wheelock Thayer
But the theme had figured twenty years before in a sketchbook used when the Sonata in A major, Op. 30, was in hand.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3)|Alexander Wheelock Thayer
There is one point in particular about that sketchbook: in it I have reserved the right to set down only what I pleased.
Abroad at Home|Julian Street
A very useful article to carry paper, or a sketchbook, or to press leaves and flowers and convey them home.
A Manual of Wood Carving|Charles G. Leland
A sketchbook and a color-box formed part of his luggage, and declared him to be an artist.
The Evil Genius|Wilkie Collins

British Dictionary definitions for sketchbook

sketchbook

/ (ˈskɛtʃˌbʊk) /

noun

a book of plain paper containing sketches or for making sketches in

a book of literary sketches

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