sketchbookn.
1.
a. A book having leaves of drawing-paper specially reserved or adapted for making sketches in.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > surface for painting or drawing > paper > drawing book
drawing book1672
flower-book1753
sketchbook1837
block1865
sketching-block1865
sketch-pad1961
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott IV. vi. 197 Encountering some odd figure, armed with a sketch-book, evidently bent on a peep at the Great Unknown.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxii. 560 Dobbin used to carry about for her her stool and sketch-book.
1884 Harper's Mag. Feb. 338/2 My friends take their sketch-books.
b. As the title of a book containing essays or studies of a more or less descriptive nature.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > [noun] > short sketch or description > collection of
sketchbook1820
1820 Irving (title) The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.
1843 W. M. Thackeray (title) The Irish Sketch-Book.
2. A notebook containing a composer's preliminary sketches or studies.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > composer's notebook
sketchbook1883
1883 G. Grove Dict. Music III. 528 Beethoven..left behind him a whole library of Sketch-books.
1883 G. Grove Dict. Music III. 529 Some of the Sketch-books in the Royal Library at Berlin.
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