working drawing
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of working drawing
First recorded in 1825–35
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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
A design like that, given the working drawing, asks little of the worker beyond patient care: of the designer it asks considerable knowledge.
From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Mary Buckle
These, very carefully put together, made a working drawing for my tapestry copy, and the lighter photograph, which had been most carefully water-colored, gave the color guide for the copy.
From The Development of Embroidery in America by Candace Wheeler
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