sketchbook

or sketch book

[ skech-book ]

/ ˈskɛtʃˌbʊk /

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noun

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

a book of literary sketches.

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Origin of sketchbook

First recorded in 1810–20; sketch + book

Words nearby sketchbook

skerrick, skerry, sket, sketch, sketchable, sketchbook, sketch map, sketchpad, sketchy, skete, skeuomorph

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Example sentences from the Web for sketchbook

Strathmore sketchpadThe kind of sketchbook you’ll need will depend on what technique you’re experimenting with, but if you’re starting with the basics, with this sketchpad by Strathmore you’ll be more than set.
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This version includes 1700 guess words and phrases, as well as eight dry, erase markers, sketchbooks, cleaning cloths, and one 60-second timer.
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That was right around the time Stamaty began what would become a lifelong habit of wandering the streets of New York and putting what he saw in his sketchbooks.
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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.
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As such, there is a vulnerability to the narration of An Armenian Sketchbook.
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Hicks travels with a tiny loom, the way other artists carry a sketchbook or point-and-shoot camera.
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He visited us at Thorpe several times, and was unusually well and in good spirits, with sketchbook or folio always in hand.
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Do not the following memoranda—accompanied in the sketchbook by numerous studies—show how the deficiency was to be supplied?
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume II (of 3)|Alexander Wheelock Thayer
In our judgment they are those, which occupy the last leaves of the sketchbook (Petters) partly filled in the Spring of 1809.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume II (of 3)|Alexander Wheelock Thayer
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
It is heard of again in a sketchbook of 1798, where there is a melodic phrase adapted to the words, Muss ein lieber Vater wohnen.
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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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