abozzo
noun
aboz·zo
variants or less commonly abbozzo
əˈbȯt(ˌ)sō
plural abozzi
-(ˌ)sē
: a rough sketch or draft (as of a picture or a poem)
Word History
Etymology
Italian abbozzo, from abbozzare to make a rough sketch or draft, from a- (from Latin ad-) + bozzare to make a rough sketch or draft, from bozza boss, swelling, roughhewn stone, rough sketch or draft
First Known Use
1826, in the meaning defined above