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character sketch

noun

, Literature.

a short essay describing a person; literary profile. Compare character ( def 17 ).

character sketch

First recorded in 1880–85

Did the "Infallible Pen" err in the former character sketch?

A screamingly funny character sketch with opportunity for songs and specialties.

Where one of the names begins with a vowel (such as William Ewart Gladstone) the character sketch can be made to run more easily.

As a brief character-sketch, "Sally, Mrs. Tubbs" deserves no little praise for its geniality and its humor.

I have striven to make it a character sketch of that remarkable personality.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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