Thesaurus results for COPPERPLATE

copperplate

noun

as in cursive

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Recent Examples of copperplate National Archives and Records Administration The exhibit features a number of historic papers, including an original engraving of the Declaration of Independence, printed from a copperplate of the original. —

Anna Alejo, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026 For this work, the artist used a scraper on copperplate with determined strength, creating a print with a range of tone similar to watercolor. —

Peter Saenger, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021 Those include open studio time every Monday afternoon, as well as copperplate etching with a master printmaker; monotype etching classes; drawing from the south; oil and watercolor painting classes; and Leonardo's Legacy classes. —

Sheila D. Grissett, NOLA.com, 17 Jan. 2021 The resulting copperplate is dated July 4, 1823. —

Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2020 Small wooden doors with the owners’ names painted in copperplate. —

Steve King, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2018 In Rothenburg, Germany, appreciate the printmakers selling etchings made with the same copperplate techniques that artist Albrecht Duerer used 500 years ago. —

Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 25 July 2017

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Various factors go into determining whether the signatures match, including the slant of the signature, whether it is printed or written in cursive, and the size, proportions or scale.

— Paris Barraza, USA Today, 4 June 2026
The details of the card are written in a cursive that flows against the less elastic serifs of the demographic data questions.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026