Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A copper printing plate engraved or etched to form a recessed pattern of the matter to be printed.
- n. A print or engraving made by using such a plate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A plate of polished copper on which a writing, picture, or design is made in sunken lines by engraving or etching. From this plate, when charged with suitable ink, impressions of the design may be produced on paper or vellum by pressure. See
engraving . - n. A print or an impression from such a plate.
- Engraved or etched on copper, or printed from a copperplate: as, a copperplate engraving.
- To engrave or etch on a plate of copper for the production of a printing surface.
Wiktionary
- n. A copper plate, either etched or engraved, to make a recessed pattern.
- n. A print made from such a plate.
- n. A style of handwriting based on that used on such prints; English round hand.
- v. To engrave on and print from a copperplate
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
- n. An impression on paper taken from such a plate.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a graceful style of handwriting based on the writing used on copperplate engravings
- n. an engraving consisting of a smooth plate of copper that has been etched or engraved
- n. a print made from an engraved copperplate
Examples
“With this style, the text is etched onto a copperplate, which is pressed into the invitation - creating a raised effect.”
“On the present occasion he took pains to make it even more careful than usual, and the result was that it looked not unlike the "copperplate" handwriting a girl would learn at the convent, though an expert would probably have declared it disguised.”
“More formal historic scripts, such as copperplate or Spencerian, use either a square nib or quill, or a point.”
“Despite many hours first of tracing, then of copying copperplate examples, my handwriting never became other than serviceable at best.”
“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.”
“Underneath that, I wrote “In pleaant Dreams” in what was supposed to be copperplate but ended up looking like bad cursive.”
“It includes a bandanna, sold as a souvenir, with the design of the first engraved map of Washington and an 1810 copperplate that was used to print money for the Bank of Columbia in Georgetown.”
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“Printed, in a fine copperplate script were the words ‘Best Supporting Actors’, and then underneath that, there was an address, a URL, and an e-mail address.”
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“A neat copperplate note records: "Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to extend her grace and mercy unto said Elizabeth Ann Staunton and to grant her a pardon … on condition of her being kept in penal servitude for the term of her natural life.”
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“She examined the work—the lush, hand-printed colors, the beautiful copperplate script.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘copperplate’.
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Penmanship
Spencerian method, Palmer method, Platt R. Spencer, cursive, round hand, running hand, handwriting, stylus, pen, vellum, penmanship, script and 86 more...
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Rare Books
Words used in the rare book trade (of which I was once a part). For more about how such books are put together, see hernesheir's excellent The Bindery.
foxing, gilt, headband, bumped, endpaper, leaf, colophon, vellum, laid paper, boards, device, engraving and 168 more...
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Theophilus North
Words from the novel by Thornton Wilder.
Theophilus, bicycle, Newport, cully, Persis, Hard-hearted Hannah, lazaret, jalopy, Gulliver, tennis, typewrite, breathings and 290 more...
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implify's Words
gaia, eviscerate, lament, ephemeral, urbane, blight, variant, schadenfreude, hubbub, iteration, feign, hobgoblin and 243 more...
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Master and Commander
An Aubrey/Maturin list.
God help me.
I blame chained_bear.prize-agent, master and commander, trabacaloes, xebecs, hipped, truckling, Bakewell tart, Eccles cake, suet pudding, slop-ship, copperplate, tramontana and 57 more...
Tweets
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reesetee An illustration made by using inscribed sheets of copper; the copper sheets are inked and paper is rolled over them to produce the image. Feb 20, 2007