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calligraphy

[kuh-lig-ruh-fee] / kəˈlɪg rə fi /
NOUN
chirography
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NOUN
hand
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The following sections, covering painting and calligraphy and the scholar’s world, focus on other influential exhibitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

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

Sometimes, I even went back after a show and shaded letters to make it look like calligraphy.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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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