Definition of Calligraphers

1. Noun. (plural of calligrapher) ¹

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Definition of Calligraphers

1. calligrapher [n] - See also: calligrapher

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calligraphers

calli
calli-
calliandra
callicarpa
callicarpas
callicarpenal
callid
callidities
callidity
calligraffiti
calligram
calligrams
calligraph
calligraphed
calligrapher
calligraphers (current term)
calligraphic
calligraphical
calligraphically
calligraphies
calligraphist
calligraphists
calligraphy
callimiconinae
callin'
calling
calling-card
calling-cards
calling cards

Literary usage of Calligraphers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Book-lover's Almanac by Henri Pène du Bois (1893)
"calligraphers. THE centenary of Percy Bysshe Shelley recalled another Shelley, the most famous writing-master of the eighteenth century in England: Thy ..."

2. A History of Classical Scholarship by John Edwin Sandys (1908)
"In this type the complex ligatures and contractions used by calligraphers were skilfully imitated. The first book in which all the three alphabets of the ..."

3. Lettering by Thomas Wood Stevens (1916)
"The invention of printing found a fairly established usage among the calligraphers, distinguishing between capitals of the old form and small letters. ..."

4. The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing: A Connected Narrative of the by Henry Noel Humphreys (1855)
"The calligraphers, may be considered to be that class of scribes who transcribed carefully MSS. of importance, which were generally written in capitals, ..."

5. The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster by Antonius van der Linde (1871)
"By the side of the calligraphers were developed the special transcribers of the universities, especially at Paris, Cologne, Heidelberg, Leipzig and Vienna. ..."

6. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1898)
"... that the writing had been done by the brush of a child n've years of age, and was writing so beautiful that few adult calligraphers could surpass it. ..."

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