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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The art, skill, style, or manner of handwriting.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing.
  • noun Manner of writing; hand-writing: as, accomplished penmanship.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The art or skill of good handwriting; calligraphy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun beautiful handwriting

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