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How to pronounce calligraphy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms chirography, penmanship
Type of hand, handwriting, script
Derivation calligrapher, calligraphical, calligraphist

Examples of calligraphy

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She knew how to do calligraphy already but wanted to learn more and meet people.
From the democratandchronicle.com
One that has parchment looking pages with antique floral or calligraphy designs.
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Proverbs and passages from the Qur'an are still sources for Islamic calligraphy.
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Chinese connoisseurship of calligraphy has roots very different from graphology.
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This article is about writings such as Buddhist texts and exemplary calligraphy.
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He started calligraphy at around 20, after a brief foray into Chinese painting.
From the theepochtimes.com
He's also a self-proclaimed gadget hound and just started practicing calligraphy.
From the tennessean.com
Still, reading the calligraphy-script recipe, I could see where I might tweak it.
From the orlandosentinel.com
This is why to create a spiritual feeling many religious texts use calligraphy.
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More examples
  • Beautiful handwriting
  • (calligrapher) someone skilled in penmanship
  • (calligraphical) calligraphic: of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy
  • Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a broad tip instrument, dip pen, or brush, among other writing instruments.:17 A contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as, "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious, and skillful manner".:18
  • (The Calligrapher) The Calligrapher is the debut novel of Edward Docx, published in 2003. Highly praised, it has been translated into eight languages. ...
  • The art of writing letters and words with decorative strokes; The letters and words so produced, collectively; The art of writing fancy lettering
  • (Calligrapher) A person (called al-khattat in Arabic) who specialized in particularly decorative and elaborate froms of writing Arabic, Persian, or Turkish script.
  • (Calligrapher) The cursive handwriting recognition system found in all Newton devices except the eMate. Calligrapher was also used as the print recognizer in NOS 1.x Newton devices. See also Cursive Recognizer.
  • (Calligraphers) who dealt in fine book production