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单词 english round hand
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English Round Hand
A style of calligraphy or handwriting characterized by clear, bold, rounded letters, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries owing to its legibility. Also in English Round Hand. Cf. copperplate n. 4. Also figurative.
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1682 London Gaz. No. 1732/4 The Bastard Italians (commonly) called the new A-la-mode Round-hands, with Round-mixt Running-hands, and mixt Secretaries.
1686 W. Elder (title) in E. Arber Term Catal. 1668–1709 (1903–6) II. 158/1 A book of copies for learners of round-hand.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 302 The common Round-hand, various Law-hands, and various Short-hands.
1766 A. Serle Treat. Art Writing 3 Round Hand... In writing this Hand, let the Slope be inclining to your Right Hand.
1800 S. Turner Acct. Embassy Court Teshoo Lama ii. vi. 282 The character in which their sacred writings are preserved..is quite as distinct..as the old Roman text is from the English round hand.
1889 W. Pater Appreciations 2 It will be useless to protest that it [sc. prose] can be..something..confined to mainly practical ends—a kind of ‘good round-hand’.
1905 H. J. Coke Tracks Rolling Stone (ed. 2) iii. 17 I would present her with little scraps which I copied in roundhand from a volume of French poems.
1994 C. Maier tr. R. Chacel Mem. Leticia Valle 144 The musical signs..were reduced to light scribbles.., giving them the smooth obliqueness of English Roundhand.
2004 S. M. Stabile Memory's Daughters ii. 121 The round hand was considered solid and uniform in shape.
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