A small or supplementary study; a preliminary sketch or study (archaic variant of 'etude' or 'study').
Variant of 'etude,' from French 'étude' (study), from Latin 'studium' (eagerness, study). The 'e-' prefix was sometimes added in older English.
Estudy is a delightfully obsolete word that shows how English borrowed French musical terms—musicians still use 'etude' for practice pieces, even though 'estudy' vanished centuries ago.
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