copperplate
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈkɑːpərˌpleɪt/
- Jargon
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copperplate
- Would you mind writing your views on cold fusion in copperplate, framing them, and hanging them in a prominent place on your wall?
- written in copperplate
Examples
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"When you were snooping, as you put it, around my drawing-room, did you notice that large and pretentious copperplate invitation on my mantelpiece?"
Fiction book (1990) -
(My fave: Copperplate. I can do it in pencil.)
Blog text (24) -
Neither book is among his best, but his books were admired even by the prigs on the paper, as were his reviews, delivered in copperplate to someone whom he may have come to suspect of being a sour young philistine.
Academic text (1996) -
For I had seen the name, written in a copperplate hand at the top of a genealogy chart, the ink old and faded by time to a sepia brown.
Fiction book (1992) -
How would you feel if you received a thank you card with a handwritten message in black font, chancery, copperplate, or any of the other fonts?
Blog text (28) -
He took the note, which had been written in copperplate longhand on lined Sperry the Nerkulen novelty notepaper.
Fiction book (1996) -
Below her signature were Marie-Claire's and Therese's—a prim strand of copperplate and a left-hander's gnarly crumple.
Fiction book (1995) -
The invitation was beautifully written using a copperplate style that impressed all the guests.
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After practicing for weeks, she finally mastered the elegant strokes of copperplate calligraphy.
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He admired the copperplate letters on the old document, appreciating their graceful and flowing appearance.
Synonyms
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7.1
Beautiful writing done by hand used for decoration or art
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5.3
The skill of writing by hand clearly and neatly
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4.3
A style of writing in which letters are joined and flow together
Compounds
How Ornate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Copperplate for the handwriting style comes from the way neat, flowing letters were first cut into a smooth sheet of copper called a plate and then printed to make many copies. So a copperplate script is handwriting that tries to copy the elegant, engraved look of those plates.