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Meanings of calligraphy in English

Portuguese
caligrafia
Catalan
cal·ligrafia
Spanish
caligrafía

Beautiful handwriting.

caligrafia
Synonyms
Examples for "penmanship"
Examples for "penmanship"
1
Not that I would have anyone think that the penmanship is mine.
Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln
2
He was very fond of showing his penmanship, which was remarkably good.
Aylwin
3
His specialties were mathematics, penmanship, bookkeeping, business science and forms, and navigation.
Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter / By E. Ben Ez-er
4
You were always good in English, and you have your grandmother's beautiful penmanship.
Pasta Imperfect
5
Not long after, a short letter, written with unsteady penmanship, arrived from Willingham.
The devil and sherlock holmes: tales of murder, madness, and obs...
1
He had become familiar with those words, written in that peculiar chirography.
Starr, of the Desert
2
Miserable chirography is one of the most prolific causes of Post-office inefficiency.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life / or, the Sights and Sensati...
3
Well, the actual chirography of the absentee would be made manifest before long.
Bertram Cope's Year
4
The soldiers supplied all needed chirography, and the bills obtained a wide circulation.
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. /...
5
I was surprised, moreover, to see the clearness and accuracy of the chirography.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
Usage of calligraphy in English
1
It is a stunningly beautiful building of great simplicity and complex calligraphy.
The Irish Times
2
A mistake, already: Tsunehiko's skills at calligraphy and taking dictation were minimal.
Shinjū
3
She had calligraphy written all over her body for filmmaker-turned-artist Vincent Ward.
Radio NZ
4
That, and that everyone dressed up and wore plastic calligraphy name tags.
Mooch
5
A piece of calligraphy in the long Islamic gallery caught my eye.
Demon: a memoir
6
Throw in some calligraphy lessons and you might ignite a lifelong passion.
Wired
7
On a desk lay two sheets of paper scribbled with black calligraphy.
The Dragon King’s Palace
8
The lettering was in black calligraphy, and flowed beautifully across the envelope.
Death masks
9
If you're good with calligraphy, you can make a really cool pirate map.
Wired
10
Something with nice calligraphy and a wax seal on the envelope, Jacobs said.
Wired
11
It is written on fine vellum, and in a perfect style of calligraphy.
Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and li...
12
He then traced the history of calligraphy in the Western world.
The new yorker
13
Like the killer had taken calligraphy lessons in his spare time.
Sign of the cross
14
It was written in careful calligraphy and signed by multiple people.
Crown of Midnight
15
We haven't done any calligraphy here before, but I think she's inspired us.
The South African
16
This shows already a marked simplicity as compared with the calligraphy of I478.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2
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Calligraphy across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common