lettering
noun
the act or process of inscribing with or making letters.
letterings
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pluralof lettering.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Chinese letterings dance gayly on the yellow packages.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
Huge letterings hang disfiguring all the blue To vaunt the grace of SNOBKINS's high-heel'd Shoe.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various
They would rejoice to devote a leisure hour to pensive letterings in a pleasure-garden, and on an occasional holiday would gladly pursue even their severest studies, book in hand, amidst verdant bowers.
From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson
He had got the books into perfect order now, and had mended the torn leaves, and had pasted up the broken backs, and substituted neat labels for the worn-out letterings.
From Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
They probably date from the fifteenth century, and bear all manner of devices, letterings, symbols.
From The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon
