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as in handwritings
the form or style of a particular person's writing
doctors are famous for their illegible penmanship
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as in calligraphies
writing done by hand
the students spend far more time honing their computer skills than they do improving their penmanship
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manuscripts
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The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.
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The vast project archive, which includes 1,500 rolls of architectural drawings, fifty architectural models and 1,000 linear feet of manuscripts, is a gift to the university made by the architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.
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“Penmanships.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penmanships. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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