Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who draws plans or designs, as of structures to be built.
- noun A woman who draws, especially an artist.
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- noun a woman employed in making drawings
- noun a woman exceptionally skilled in drawing
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Examples
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A draftswoman, Yekaterina Viktorovna Moiseyeva, rendered the drawings.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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Yekaterina Moiseyeva, the draftswoman, appeared at his door.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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Though he had a young son and wife in Matai, on the Kazakh steppe, he had fallen in love with Katya, the draftswoman at the NIPSMVO design bureau.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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Aviva Uri has become engraved in our memory as a woman who realized her life as an artist, a gifted draftswoman whose work touched the roots of her existence and influenced an entire generation of artists.
Uri, Aviva. 2009
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Before Hannah Wilke became Hannah Wilke, feminist provocateur with a camera and gum or ceramic vulvas in a range of sizes, she was a spirited, often wicked draftswoman.
NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2010
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One of the Biennial's pleasures is discovering emerging artists, and this time there will be plenty of them, including Aurel Schmidt, a draftswoman; Jesse Aron Green, a video artist;
NYT > Home Page By CAROL VOGEL 2010
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Mrs. Matzen, 53, worked for 33 years as an architectural draftswoman but said she faced age discrimination in her search for a new job.
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Sadie Gow, 88, served with Australian armed forces as a draftswoman in New Guinea in 1945 and she said modern dawn services were virtually unrecognisable from those of 30 or 40 years ago, when attendee numbers were negligible.
News 2009
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She's in the current group Etherton exhibition, and so is Alice Leora Briggs, an extraordinary draftswoman whose elaborate drawings are steeped in art history.
Tucson Weekly 2009
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Hwang works plungers, tubes, blocks, tops, pencils and tricycles into formations like a true draftswoman.
The Clog 2009
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