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calligraphy

[kuh-lig-ruh-fee] / kəˈlɪg rə fi /
NOUN
chirography
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NOUN
hand
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It looked disorientingly familiar to a fellow Egyptian American: Art from Egypt lined the walls, with brass pieces and calligraphy you’d find in a Cairo bazaar.

From Slate Apr. 29, 2026

Elders get their hearing checked and play mahjongg and practice calligraphy in the shade of empty plazas.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 2026

To illustrate, she holds up a box of charred scraps covered in Arabic calligraphy.

From BBC Dec. 4, 2025

Kurosawa insisted on mixing black calligraphy ink with the water in the rain machines, to ensure that the deluge could be distinguished from the cloudy sky behind it.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 17, 2025

I graze my fingers across the cool metal and etched calligraphy.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Brienne calligraphies his final noble life deeds into the Book of Brothers, using phrases like “impossible odds” and “alone” and “without loss of life.”

From The New Yorker May 20, 2019




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