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WordWealth: atelier
at·el·ier
("a-t&l-'yA),
n., pl.
at·el·iers
("a-t&l-'yAz).
a workshop or studio,
esp. of an artist, artisan, or designer.
[1830–40; < F: lit., pile
of chips (hence, workshop); OF astele chip (< LL astella,
dim. of L astula, var. of assula splinter, equiv. to
ass(is) plank + -ula -ULE)
+ -ier -IER2]
(Random
House Webster's, Unabridged).
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"I never had any master," said the painter,
thinking perhaps of his restless, friendless journeys from one
atelier to another; "my master has been a horror of certain
things." That fineness of nature which made it seem, easy for
Longfellow, as for his classmate Hawthorne, to avoid the unworthy, was
perfected by the firm intellectual discipline and the clear flame of
aspiration that characterized the years spent in the struggling
country college. ——
The Centenary of Longfellow,
the Atlantic
After Groton, he would attend the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
School, then settle in Paris, rent an atelier and
paint. —— Benjamin Welles,
Sumner Welles: FDR's Global Strategist
It takes several minutes to fully digest the appearance of the
woman who opens the white metal doors of this Parisian atelier. One
half of her hair is black, the other white. Furious backcombing has
produced a rather appealing towering cumulonimbus affair, with severe
thunderstorms threatening one side of her head, and scattered showers
the other. ——
Not Just a Pretty Face, the Independent,
24 October 2002
Atelier comes from French, from Old French astelier,
"carpenter's shop," from astele, "splinter," from Late Latin
astella, alteration of Latin astula, itself an alteration
of assula, "a shaving, a chip," diminutive of assis,
"board."
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