calligraphist

American  

[kuh-lig-ruhf-ist] / kəˈlɪg rəf ɪst /

noun

• calligraphists
  plural

1. calligrapher.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• calligraphists
  plural

Example Sentences

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calligraphist calligraphists

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

In just this way I misunderstood my calligraphist at first, and I looked as sympathetic as I could.

From Not that it Matters by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

The Emperor at this time was Chien Lung, the best of the Manchu dynasty, a cultivated man, a patron of the arts, and an exquisite calligraphist.

From The Problem of China by Bertrand Russell

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

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

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