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词汇 copperplate
释义 copperplate
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈkɒp.ə.pleɪt/ us /ˈkɑː.pɚ.pleɪt/
an old-fashioned decorative style of writing with long, flowing letters工整的书写体,西文手写圆形草体
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Examples from literature

Ellen worked an hour or two every evening on the novel, and next day Andrew copied it in a hand like copperplate—large, with ornate flourishes. 
Jane's was a copperplate production, with every "t" nicely crossed and every "i" precisely dotted, and not an interesting sentence in it. 
She has a beautiful voice and writes a hand that looks like copperplate. 
The first step a hedge schoolmaster took, on establishing himself in a school, was to write out, in his best copperplate hand, a flaming advertisement, detailing, at full length, the several branches he professed himself capable of teaching. 

Examples of copperplate


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He had replaced the wire mesh in his vatman's mold with a brass screen, which produced unmarked sheets fit for fine printing and copperplate engraving.
The four-volume monograph includes 3936 pages of text and 116 copperplates and very many single illustrations in the texts (especially in the fourth volume).
People will no longer be required to keep ledgers in beautiful copperplate, write letters, or make calculations for accounts.
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I had a vision of hundreds of clerks with quill pens writing copperplate entries in pension books.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Ten invitations were written by a copperplate writer, who volunteered to do it.
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He primarily worked with copperplate in his engraving.
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Typefaces imitating copperplate script form part of this family.
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He also worked to earn living money as a hand laborer, and he made drawings for copperplate etchings.
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His copperplate engravings include title-pages, frontispieces and portraits.
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He acted as a goldsmith, copperplate engraver, bookkeeper, and also as a townsman.
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A copperplate depicts it as a small building with a single nave adorned with a large tower with a pointy spire.
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The number of illustrations in this book counts to a hefty 1,121 escutcheons, standards and seals of armorial bearings on wood, besides 58 copperplate illustrations.
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The new structure was a grey granite building with a copperplate dome.
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They finished fabrics by tyeing and dyeing, wax resist printing with indigo, and copperplate printing.
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The work contained copperplate folio engravings of classical antiquities.
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