calligrapher
Americannoun
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calligraphers
plural
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someone who practices calligraphy as an art or profession.
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(with modifier) someone who writes by hand.
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She gardens, cooks, is an impeccable calligrapher and shares her love of crafting with her equally famous guests.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2025
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
By that, we mean handing over money to hire a calligrapher for a fresh take on writing one’s own name in cursive.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
He was a calligrapher second to none, a poet, and he had as well a remarkable singing voice.
From Memorials of the Faithful by `Abdu'l-Bahá
But both those new to the medium and seasoned calligraphers say the deliberate, steady nature of the practice is a huge part of its appeal — one that is on the upswing.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
Yet not all of the artists are calligraphers, and not all of the calligraphy is Chinese.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2019
“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
The scurry, and the claws, may be said to have a cause in evolution by natural selection, which works on organisms and parts thereof as traditional calligraphers work on Japanese scrolls, imperfectly but with elegance.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2016
The three most celebrated calligraphers of this century were Hamdallah, who died A.D.
From Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature by F. F. Arbuthnot
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