Someone skilled in penmanship

Usage examples of calligrapher.

They argued about which of the six great calligraphers his hand most resembled.

This second report was written on fine India paper which Monsieur Roland took to a calligrapher in Paris.

The calligrapher sealed the India paper inside two sheets of thicker paper that were so cleverly pasted together that they appeared to a casual glance to be one thick sheet of paper.

Then, on the thicker paper's creamy surface, the calligrapher inscribed an extremely tedious ode in praise of the Greek Gods.

One of the Chinese antipodists turned out to be an accomplished calligrapher and, though he could not at all comprehend the words or letters, he beautifully copied them from one of the old wagons onto each of the new ones, and even onto the wooden panels that enclosed Maximus's cage when it was on the road: Florians Flourishing Florilegium, etc.

The greetings cards told nothing at all, except that they were generally signed in crescive High-Degree Creapii IV, a favourite script for multi-dextral amateur calligraphers.