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  • noun Plural form of calligraphy.

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Examples

  • "The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China: Masterpieces of Ming Loyalist Art from the Chih Lo Lou Collection" brings together 63 landscape paintings and calligraphies from the traumatic moment when the nearly 300-year-old Ming dynasty collapsed.

    Quiet Expressions of Ming Protest Ellen Gamerman 2011

  • There were calligraphies of what may have been love.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • Some of the newer, more modern calligraphies are sooo cool.

    Life in the Fast Lane Cake for Breakfast 2009

  • Some of the newer, more modern calligraphies are sooo cool.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Cake for Breakfast 2009

  • This is the first attempt to have a digital library of Islamic inscriptions, writings and calligraphies which makes it very unique.

    Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: The Library of Alexandria 2006

  • Its aim is "to study inscriptions, calligraphies and writings in the world throughout the ages, from the pre-dynastic period up to the digital age."

    Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: The Library of Alexandria 2006

  • Its aim is "to study inscriptions, calligraphies and writings in the world throughout the ages, from the pre-dynastic period up to the digital age."

    Archive 2006-03-01 2006

  • This is the first attempt to have a digital library of Islamic inscriptions, writings and calligraphies which makes it very unique.

    Archive 2006-03-01 2006

  • DiaoYuCheng Translated: Fishing Village/City has many beautiful/poetic calligraphies craved into the solid rock, as well as many statues of Buddha – both intact and obviously destroyed – including a great sleeping Buddha.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Phil Razem 2007

  • DiaoYuCheng Translated: Fishing Village/City has many beautiful/poetic calligraphies craved into the solid rock, as well as many statues of Buddha – both intact and obviously destroyed – including a great sleeping Buddha.

    Runnin' the Great Wall... Phil Razem 2007

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