[kuh-lig-ruh-fee] 
| 1. | fancy penmanship, esp. highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century. |
| 2. | handwriting; penmanship. |
| 3. | the art of writing beautifully: He studied calligraphy when he was a young man. |
| 4. | a script, usually cursive, although sometimes angular, produced chiefly by brush, esp. Chinese, Japanese, or Arabic writing of high aesthetic value. |
| 5. | Fine Arts. line or a group of lines either derived from or resembling letter forms and characterized by qualities usually associated with cursive writing, esp. that produced with a brush or pen. |
| cal·lig·ra·phy (kə-lĭg'rə-fē) n.
[French calligraphie, from Greek kalligraphiā, beautiful writing : kalli-, beautiful (from kallos, beauty) + -graphiā, -graphy.] cal·lig'ra·pher, cal·lig'ra·phist n., cal'li·graph'ic (kāl'ĭ-grāf'ĭk) adj. |
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