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draughtsmanship
Word definitions for draughtsmanship in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And you can learn an awful lot from good draughtsmanship . ▪ Critics have expressed doubts about the draughtsmanship of both artists. ▪ Here Picasso is more irreverent than ever, but never obscene-the elegance of his draughtsmanship ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context British English) (alternative spelling of draftsmanship English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Draughtsmanship \Draughts"man*ship\, n. The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.
Usage examples of draughtsmanship.
Pairfield had elected to be an artist, and moreover to be a very dextrous and proficient artist whose draughtsmanship would have won the approval of Drer or Da Vinci.
If I'd lived ten thousand years ago, I might have wowed the cave dwellers of Lascaux, France -- whose standards for draughtsmanship must have been on about the same level as those of San Ignacio.
It would be a real tour de force of draughtsmanship and artistic skill on a sheet of notepaper, but this is the Nazca desert (where they do things on a grand scale) and the monkey is at least 400 feet long and 300 feet wide .
Besides which, the draughtsmanship was so uncommonly neat and accurate, and displayed practical knowledge of what could or could not be done at sea.
The right sort of patina for the time since Munnings' death, the right excellence of draughtsmanship, the right indefinable something which separated the great from the good.