calligrapher

American  

[kuh-lig-ruhf-er] / kəˈlɪg rəf ər /

noun

• calligraphers
  plural

1. someone who practices calligraphy as an art or profession.

2. (with modifier) someone who writes by hand.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• calligraphers
  plural

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“Thank you very much,’’ Charles told heraldic artist Tim Noad and calligrapher Stephanie Gill, who worked on the project for 56 days straight.

From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024

But spare a thought for the calligrapher who wrote it.

From BBC ● May 2, 2024

St. John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota, commissioned the project and Donald Jackson, an internationally known calligrapher from Monmouth, Wales, in 1998.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2023

As a young girl, Ellen Weldon probably never dreamed she would grow up to become a calligrapher.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2022

Hence Sultan Mu'ayyad of Cairo was a calligrapher who sold his handwriting, and his example was followed by the Turkish Sultans Mahmúd, Abd al-Majíd and Abd al-Azíz.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

While engraving and letterpress machines can operate 24 hours per day, calligraphers can’t.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2022

“The skilled calligraphers and illuminators have created something more than an artifact of a particular religion or group,” Parish said.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 14, 2018

“The skilled calligraphers and illuminators have created something more than an artifact of a particular religion or group,” Parish said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2018

It’s worth saying, I think, that while we can talk about Jack Phillips, we’ve seen cases like this arise from calligraphers, florists, photographers.

From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2017

Persian calligraphers had taught its use afresh to the Byzantine scribes.

From Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley