copperplatenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈkɒp.ə.pleɪt/us/ˈkɑː.pɚ.pleɪt/an old-fashioned decorative style of writing with long, flowing letters
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Lettering & alphabets
- ABC
- camel case
- character
- cuneiform
- Cyrillic
- hand-lettered
- hieroglyph
- hieroglyphics
- ideogram
- incapping
- initial
- IPA
- kanji
- letter
- notation
- penmanship
- phonetic
- rune
- script
- stenography
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Examples from literature
- Ellen worked an hour or two every evening on the novel, and next day Andrew copied it in a hand like copperplate—large, with ornate flourishes.
- Jane's was a copperplate production, with every "t" nicely crossed and every "i" precisely dotted, and not an interesting sentence in it.
- She has a beautiful voice and writes a hand that looks like copperplate.
- The first step a hedge schoolmaster took, on establishing himself in a school, was to write out, in his best copperplate hand, a flaming advertisement, detailing, at full length, the several branches he professed himself capable of teaching.