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An engraving consisting of a smooth plate of copper that has been etched or engraved
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copperplate
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A dozen names - once repeated slowly by the Registrar and written down in steady copperplate . ▪ It was not a long letter, written in an old-fashioned copperplate hand. ▪ They learn for a day the art of copperplate handwriting ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Copperplate \Cop"per*plate`\ (k[o^]p"p[~e]r*pl[=a]t`), n. A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved. An impression on paper taken from such a plate. Note: In printing from a copper- or steel plate the lines are filled with ink, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fine style of handwriting based on the writing used on copperplate engravings a print made from an engraved copperplate an engraving consisting of a smooth plate of copper that has been etched or engraved
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Copperplate (or copper-plate , copper plate ) may refer to: any form of intaglio printing using a metal plate (usually copper), or the plate itself engraving etching Copperplate script , a style of handwriting and typefaces derived from it Copperplate Gothic ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A copper plate, either etched or engraved, to make a recessed pattern. 2 A print made from such a plate. 3 A style of handwriting based on that used on such prints; English round hand. vb. To engrave on and print from a copperplate
Usage examples of copperplate.
Joseph Smith, the finder of the Book of Mormon and founder of the religion, was driven from State to State with his mysterious copperplates and the miraculous stones he read their inscriptions with.
CHAPTER 11 His lordship should know, Malachi Braithwaite had written in a careful copperplate hand, that his wife was conducting an adulterous affair with Ensign Sharpe.
The bad news is that we've got one hell of a lot of structural damage aft, and just locating where the runs are broken is going to be a copperplated bitch.
The bad news is that we’ve got one hell of a lot of structural damage aft, and just locating where the runs are broken is going to be a copperplated bitch.
I think there's a real good chance they're outside the Wasps' sensor perimeter, and if they manage to get under cover quick enough, without being spotted, and if they're smart enough to stay inside the buildings, they're going to be a copperplated bitch to pick up.
The highly polished mahogany furniture gleamed where it was touched by the soft, shaded, amber glow that came from one of the two copperplated bedside lamps that stood on the nightstands.
Braithwaite at its head, and below it in Pendel's copperplate hand an Account Rendered to Mr Andrew Osnard in the sum of two and a half thousand dollars at the address of his private apartment in Paitilla.
A copperplate sign was illuminated by rows of dazzling bulbs: La Belle Epoque.
The New jersey jobb was obtain'd, I contriv'd a copperplate press for it, the first that had been seen in the country.
For I had seen the name, written in a copperplate hand at the top of a genealogy chart, the ink old and faded by time to a sepia brown.
During the first week the log had recorded the burial of fourteen convicts, the two remaining turnkeys, and a loblolly boy, all of whom had lived or worked forward, and it had recorded them in Needham's fine copperplate: now it was Jack's far rougher hand that wrote the daily list, for his clerk had gone over the side with two cannon-balls to carry him down and his hammock for a shroud, the first of those abaft the mast to die of the disease.