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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
draughtsmanship
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 sees to that.
▪ I think it is ugly and perhaps one of the worst examples of Leonardo's draughtsmanship.
▪ On the whole, therefore, a rather crude kind of draughtsmanship is implied.
▪ One of the most notable features of this mosaic is its. variable quality of draughtsmanship and execution.
▪ Some branches go in for quite lavish posters, some make do with local draughtsmanship.
▪ The second technical achievement which goes some way to explaining Ramsay's success, is his superb draughtsmanship.
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Draughtsmanship

Draughtsmanship \Draughts"man*ship\, n. The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.

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draughtsmanship

n. (context British English) (alternative spelling of draftsmanship English)

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.