atelier

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My only English-speaking companion in the atelier was a younger brother of Edward Armitage, the Royal Academician; the popular atelier at that time for the English and American students being that of Couture.

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  1. noun A workshop or studio, especially for an artist or designer.

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  • The king and his courtiers frequented his atelier, and delighted to watch him paint, vieing with each other in the richness of their gifts, among which were splendid brocade dresses and beautiful ornaments and jewels, in which he longed to adorn his wife. —  Fra Bartolommeo
  • I also saw the interior of his atelier, and the things in progress. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Kurtovic's atelier is a modest, light-filled space, where she caters to a maximum of three people a day so that she can spend as much time and energy as possible with each of her clients, many of whom she inherited after working with famed aesthetician Georgina Acosta.
  • MAY: - I am professor at university and I also work in my atelier, and through my work I see that all these places give you diplomas but never give you knowledge. —  Yemen Observer
  • Since its establishment in 1896, the Guillet atelier has been a family-run "floral accessory" workshop initially specialising in creating floral decorations for the theatre and cinema.
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  1. French, from Old French astelier, carpenter's shop, from astele, splinter, from Late Latin astella, alteration of Latin astula, diminutive of assis, board.

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  1. French, formerly attelier, hastelier; of disputed origin.
 

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