pictography
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pictography
1850–55; pictograph + -y 3; -graphy
Example Sentences
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His contemporary, geographer and ethnologist Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, called it “dental pictography.”
From Washington Post
As to whether all this persuasion was causal or merely decorative, I have advocated a perspective: Events are seldom inherently deterministic and they have to be “sold,” their meanings made vivid, via all the gathered powers of eloquence or pictography—whether by Marat in the French Revolution, Lenin in the Russian, or Churchill in 1940.
From Slate
The decision to standardise toilet pictography is the latest attempt to make Japan’s toilets more user friendly.
From The Guardian
At a launch event this week, the firms said they had agreed to simplify the pictography in response to complaints from tourists that they are confused by symbols that differ depending on the make of toilet.
From The Guardian
He originated all things, through the instrumentality of the tortoise, which, in Algonquin pictography, was the symbol of the earth.
From Project Gutenberg
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