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Longhand   /lˈɔŋhˌænd/   Listen
Longhand

noun
1.
Rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper.  Synonyms: cursive, cursive script, running hand.






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"Longhand" Quotes from Famous Books



... two he sat still, looking into the fire. Then he picked up a pile of depositions and drew a pencil-case from his pocket. For a while the occasional flick of a page argued his awful attention to the recital of crime: then the keen grey eyes slid back to the glowing coals, and the longhand went by the board. It was evident that there was some extraneous matter soliciting his lordship's regard, and in some sort gaining the same because ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

... proposed to Fortune, and been emphatically rejected. For six years he had worked persistently and ceaselessly toward a given goal, doing clerical work by day and creative work by night, going from shorthand into longhand, and from numerical figures into figures of speech. For the way that Hinton's soul was traveling was the Inky Way, and at its ...
— Mr. Opp • Alice Hegan Rice



Words linked to "Longhand" :   cursive, script, italic, handwriting, minuscule, copperplate, hand, round hand, written, cursive script, running hand



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