What does rough-draw mean?
Rough-draw means To sketch roughly; to make a quick, unpolished version..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
To sketch roughly; to make a quick, unpolished version..
His victories we scarce could keep in view, Or polish them so fast as he rough-drew.
My pen is not a fit pencil in the least to rough-draw the great jubilee with which the hearts of the people of Rome were filled, when, on Monday morning, the twentieth of June, it began to be whispered about the city, that so deserving a prelate had been created the sacred Monarch of Christendome;
The case standing hereabouts (as near as I could rough-draw the state of it in this instantaneous haste) let us I beseech you be rather Irenei than Cassandri.
Whether he worked fast or slow, at the flower of the day or not, it appears that from the beginning to the end of his career as a poet, Swift first rough-drew his verse and then revisited it in order to add, blot, and alter.
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Rough-draw means To sketch roughly; to make a quick, unpolished version..
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His victories we scarce could keep in view, Or polish them so fast as he rough-drew.
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