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copperplate
/ ˈkɒpəˌpleɪt /
noun
- a polished copper plate on which a design has been etched or engraved
- a print taken from such a plate
- a fine handwriting based upon that used on copperplate engravings
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Word History and Origins
Origin of copperplate1
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Example Sentences
The same remark is applicable to most of the copperplate and lithographic portraits of Beethoven.
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I give a reproduction which suggests somewhat the effect of the famous copperplate of Erasmus.
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The outside of it looked all right, with its address in Thompson's neat copperplate.
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It wasn't written on in Thompson's neat copperplate or in his neat phrases, either.
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It was written in Thompson's careful, back-number copperplate, perhaps not so careful as usual, but his unmistakably.
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