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topographer|təʊˈpɒgrəfə(r)|
[f. Gr. τοπογράϕ-ος topographer + -er1. Cf. F. topographe (16th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
One who is skilled in topography; one who describes or delineates a particular locality.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xxx. (1632) 101 We had need of Topographers to make us particular narrations of the places they have beene in. 1625N. Carpenter Geog. Del. ii. i. (1635) 2 Topographers, who spend their stocke in the description of some particular place or Region. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry Diss. ii. (1840) I. p. cxxiv, Giraldus Cambrensis..was an historian, an antiquarian, a topographer,..and a poet. 1884Manch. Exam. 18 July 4/6 The Russian topographers are..correcting the existing maps. |