calligraphy
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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
Around me: Jamaican steel drums, an electrified sitar, Mexican women selling churros, Chinese immigrants painting tourists’ names in calligraphy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 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
The letter was handwritten on fine, unlined paper in looping script so ornate it was almost calligraphy, the black ink varying in tone like that of an old fountain pen.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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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