working drawing
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of working drawing
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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A similarly impressive five-foot-wide working drawing for the successful 1985 project to wrap the Pont Neuf in Paris raised about $569,000, and one of Christo’s sought-after early “Package” sculptures, dating from 1961, took $626,400.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2021
Undaunted, she carried on working, drawing, sculpting and making installations.
From Economist ● Sep. 21, 2017
He also appeared to be some sort of mechanic; one ransom note had a careful working drawing of the sort of box in which he wanted the money delivered.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Figure 66 is a working drawing of the bench illustrated in Figure 65.
From The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte
If one of these sketches is selected, the designer then makes an accurate "working" drawing, either in color, or black and white.
From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Frederick H. Hitchcock
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