Definitions
Decorative handwriting produced with skilled pen or brush work.
Word origin
Borrowed from French calligraphie, from Ancient Greek καλλιγραφία (kalligraphía, literally “pretty writing”), from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to draw”).
Used in a sentence
“This paper will explore the role of calligraphy on three royal mosques built during the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1628-1658):[…].”
“There is, however, a temporal separation between the earthly crystallization of Quranic calligraphy and the advent of the Quranic revelation.”
“Around the corner, at Goedhuis, among more contemporary calligraphies, the fat and fuzzy brushwork of Zeng Yizeng (born 1973) stands out.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Fancy handwriting”11 letters
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