Definitions
a studio especially for an artist or designer
Word origin
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).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Artist's studio”7 letters
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