[
UK
/kˈɒpəplˌeɪt/
]
NOUN
- a graceful style of handwriting based on the writing used on copperplate engravings
- an engraving consisting of a smooth plate of copper that has been etched or engraved
- a print made from an engraved copperplate
How To Use copperplate In A Sentence
- Among his other skills, he was renowned as an engraver both in wood and in copperplate.
- The date on the back of the photo, July 1st 1916, had been written, Ralph could see, in Jesse's copperplate hand.
- Visitors can take their place at desks in three period classrooms and write on slates with chalk before progressing to dip pens and exercise books to practise ornate copperplate writing.
- Little self-important copperplate fountain-penned comments such ‘Easily distracted’ start to creep into the elaboration box.
- Catesby made his prints by etching the image of his drawing onto the surface of a copperplate.
- But it is still elegant and compleat, and Mama found room to underline or make comments in her copperplate handwriting, using peacock-blue fountain pen ink in delicate lines. Archive 2010-01-01
- Even some of the techniques used - the silver plaques engraved with copperplate script, the use of embroidery - hark back to these two artists.
- His medium is not the traditional woodblock, but copperplates.
- ‘I would trace the gothic typeface of The New York Times banner head, [and] practice the copperplate script that adorns wedding invitations with felt markers and ballpoint pens,’ he recalls.
- Speeches given by Harris during the years of revolution and during the subsequent land agitation were faithfully recorded in the copperplate hand of bureaucrats and paid spies.