calligraphy
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rə noun
1.
fancy penmanship, especially 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, especially 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, especially that produced with a brush or pen.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| Also called: chirography handwriting, esp beautiful handwriting considered as an art | |
| cal'ligrapher | |
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| cal'ligraphist | |
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| calligraphic | |
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| calli'graphically | |
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Word Origin & History
calligraphy
1610s, from Gk. kaligraphia, from kallos "beauty" + graphein "to write" (see graph). Related: Calligraphic. The usual comb. form in Gk. was kalli- "beautiful, fine, happy, favorable;" kalo- was a later, rarer alternative form.
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Example sentences
She bares an undistinguished tattoo, a cross and calligraphy.
She is known for her complex abstractions, which incorporate graphic elements borrowed from architecture and calligraphy.
The history of calligraphy itself, however, was not peaceful.
The discussions in this article seems to border on calligraphy vs typography.
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