A quick sketch or rough outline, especially in art and fashion design; a preliminary drawing made rapidly to capture the essence of a subject.
From French 'croquis,' derived from 'croquer' (to sketch or crunch). The term entered English through art and fashion vocabulary in the 19th century.
Fashion designers rely on croquis templates—stylized body outlines—to quickly sketch ideas, and these templates have become so standardized that they're nearly universal, creating a visual language understood across all fashion capitals.
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