The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caligraphy \Ca*lig"ra*phy\, n. See Caligraphy. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
alternative spelling of calligraphy.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of calligraphy English)
Usage examples of "caligraphy".
He was quite as much disposed to exaggerate the difficulties she herself would feel from not understanding the forms of law, or not being able to write the particular style of caligraphy required for legal instruments.
He opened the book thoughtfully, and in his fine caligraphy marked FIVE for Woloda for diligence, and the same for good behaviour.
He was aware that his manuscript was not a model of caligraphy, but, on being remonstrated with, he passionately declared he could not do any better, promising, however, sarcastically that, as a predestined diplomat, he would keep an amanuensis in future.
Page after page he covered with close writing-no weak, uncertain scrawl, but a firm bold, neat caligraphy,--his own peculiar, characteristic hand.
The caligraphy displayed upon the envelope was in every way too perfect not to be professional, and, as I looked at it, it seemed to me I could see the queer, sparrow-like head of the writer bending over it, and smell the odour of the dried herbs and the still drier violins hanging up in that quaint old shop to which I had paid a visit that morning.
From that time forth the box we have described made its appearance every Christmas evening, accompanied by a few cordial lines, to which Wohlfart responded in a masterpiece of caligraphy, expressing his surprise at the unexpected arrival, and wishing a happy new year to the firm.
German, finer caligraphy, and an initiation into the mysteries of book-keeping, of which he as yet knew nothing.