calligraphist

American  

[kuh-lig-ruhf-ist] / kəˈlɪg rəf ɪst /

noun

• calligraphists
  plural

1. calligrapher.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• calligraphists
  plural

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In Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood he displayed formidable powers as a moralist, an ironist, a calligraphist of violence.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was mistress of six languages besides her own, a student of Greek, a superb calligraphist, an excellent musician.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kobo Daishi is the most famous of all Japanese Buddhist teachers; famous alike as a saint, as an artist, and as a calligraphist.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley

In addition to being a great painter, Mi Fei was a great calligraphist.

From Chinese Painters A Critical Study by Frances Seaver

The names of the composer and calligraphist, and of the bronze-founder.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

This inscription had been composed and written by a high Buddhist prelate, Seikan, reputed to be one of the greatest scholars and most skilful calligraphists of his time.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley

God for copyists, those drones, our skull-down, penny-quill calligraphists.

From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

It contains the formula of the Moslem faith in the cursive style of the Suls character, seventy-two varieties of which are enumerated by calligraphists.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton