calligraph
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of calligraph
1880–85; back formation from calligraphy; see calli-, -graph
Example Sentences
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At first glance the brush work might seem clumsy as a calligraph drawn in a Chinese kindergarten, but it made space of the flat paper, and crammed it with fat, interlocked sausages of light.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'd love to finish the quilt and also calligraph some of my poems.
From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Lauren Ann Isaacson
The MS. was copied on vellum by Nicholas Jarry, the great calligraph of his time.
From The Library by Andrew Lang
A photographic calligraph, whose letters were so fine as to require a microscope to see them, was placed at a distance of three hundred feet.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various
I tried to calligraph a card for his mother, but couldn't seem to control the pen well today.
From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Lauren Ann Isaacson
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