atelier

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/əˈtɛl.jeɪ/
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/əˈtɛl.jeɪ/ · /əˈtɛl.i.eɪ/ · /æ.təˈljeɪ/ · /ˈæ.təˌljeɪ/ · /-ˌljɛ/ · /əˈtɛlˌjeɪ/ · /ˌæ.təlˈjeɪ/ · [ˌæ.ɾəl-] · [ˌæ.ɾɫ̩-]

Definition of atelier

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A studio or workshop, especially for an artist, designer, or fashion house.
    “The Dukes de Claulne, father and ſon, had laboratories for clock and vvatch making as vvell as for machinery. Theſe ateliers, as the French name them, vvere as fine and complete for the choice of tools as it vvas poſſible to find in Europe; […]”
    “I paid a visit to the celebrated [Antonio] Canova in his vast and interesting atelier. He had been at Naples a short time before to form his own judgment of the situation intended for the equestrian statue of Napoleon, which we saw already almost finished in his atelier.”
    “The life of a young artist here is the easiest, merriest, dirtiest existence possible. […] [H]e arrives at his atelier at a tolerably early hour, and labours among a score of companions as merry and poor as himself.”
    “At the meeting of the Society, February 6, it was stated that red glass was preferable to yellow for the windows of photographic ateliers.”
    “[Albert de] Lautreppe is awfully nice—a quiet, gentlemanly fellow, gonflé de rêves, as he describes himself—once a sculptor in the atelier of Henry Crosse, he knows something of art, and is really a resource to me.”

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French atelier, from Middle French astelier, from astelle (“small piece of wood, etc., to hold a broken bone in place, splint”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis; axle”) via Latin assula) + -ier (suffix denoting the location of an abode). Compare typologically Latin harēna, whence arena.

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