| 单词 | thumbnail sketch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthumbnail sketch 2. transferred. A drawing or sketch of the size of the thumbnail; hence figurative a brief word-picture. Chiefly attributive, as thumbnail sketch. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > [noun] > short sketch or description portraiture1650 word picture1835 cameo1851 thumbnail sketch1852 vignette1880 pastel1890 the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > outlining or sketching > sketch or brief description adumbration1552 specimen1665 sketch1668 superficies1670 silhouette1819 outline sketch1835 thumbnail1900 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > rough or preliminary skiagraphy1594 model1613 shadow1656 sketch1668 cartoona1684 schizzo1686 ébauche1722 scratch1752 croquis1805 galloping sketch1834 pochade1846 abbozzo1849 scribbling1863 thumbnail sketch1900 under-drawing1934 bozzetto1935 pensiero1959 1852 E. E. Hale in Sartain's Mag. Jan. 39 (heading) The old and the new, face to face. A thumb-nail sketch. 1900 D. Woodside Life H. Calderwood ix. 208 Small ink-sketches of the thumb-nail order. 1901 Daily Chron. 3 Jan. 4 in Cassell's Encycl. Dict.: Suppl. Vol. (c1904) (at cited word) The truth of Dickens's vignettes and thumb-nails of humanity. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 1/3 There are also ‘thumb-nails’ of some French figures, and..little pencil portraits of well-known faces. 1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter 125 A full-length ‘character-cartoon’ of the Colonel surrounded by ‘thumb-nail’ impressions of his face and bodily pose. 1968 R. Gittings John Keats xi. 148 He wrote a brilliant thumb-nail sketch of Oxford. < as lemmas |
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