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See also:SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, See also:Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-See also:hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source) , a rough or hasty preliminary outline or draft serving as a See also:note or material for a finished See also:work . Though used of See also:literary See also:composition, as for a See also:short slightly constructed See also:play, or of a rapid delineation in words of an event or See also:character, the See also:term is chiefly used of the putting on See also:paper or other material of the immediate impression of an See also:object, figure, landscape, &c., by an artist, or of an artist's first See also:idea or conception of a work whether in See also:painting or See also:sculpture . |
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