Atelier

//əˈtɛl.jeɪ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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; […]"

  2. 2
    a studio especially for an artist or designer wordnet

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”)) + -ier (suffix denoting the location of an abode).

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