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Copperplate

noun

A graceful 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. Synonym: copperplate engraving.

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"Copperplate" Quotes from Famous Books

... learned to give to his enamels when he was making love to the young Venetian girl whom he afterwards married. There was the statue of a king at each corner, modelled with as much force and splendor as his friend Albrecht Duerer could have given unto them on copperplate or canvas. The body of the stove itself was divided into panels, which had the Ages of Man painted on them in polychrome; the borders of the panels had roses and holly and laurel and other foliage, and German mottoes in black letter ...

— The Nuernberg Stove • Louisa de la Rame (AKA Ouida)

... after the glazing has been completed, by taking the impressions from the copperplate on a flexible strap covered with a strong gelatinous mixture of glue and treacle. This strap is then pressed on the ware, and gives the impression in glue, the colouring powder is then dusted over it, and a sufficient portion ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 19, Issue 550, June 2, 1832 • Various

... became his biographer, was his uterine brother. Apprenticed to the loom, he renounced weaving in the course of a year, and thereafter was employed in the establishment of a bookbinder. At the age of nineteen he entered on an indenture of seven years to a firm of copperplate engravers at Ferenize. He had early been inclined to verse-making, and, having formed the acquaintance of Tannahill, he was led to cultivate with ardour his native predilection. He likewise stimulated his ingenious friend to higher and more ambitious efforts in poetry. ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various

... are informed, that to prevent the above deception, the advertisements on bladders of Snuff, in future, will be altered from letter-press, to a copperplate ...

— The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England • Various

Words linked to "Copperplate" : engraving, print, longhand, cursive script, cursive, copperplate engraving, running hand