calligraphy
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It looked disorientingly familiar to a fellow Egyptian American: Art from Egypt lined the walls, with brass pieces and calligraphy you’d find in a Cairo bazaar.
From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026
Signage for new and defunct art galleries appear with letters roasted dry by the relentless California sun until the edges of words peel away, looking like they were written in calligraphy.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
To illustrate, she holds up a box of charred scraps covered in Arabic calligraphy.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025
After photos hit the wires showing construction equipment at the White House, tearing into the East Wing, critics lamented the lost quarters of the social secretary and the calligraphy office.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
I did have a new pad of Post-it notes and a new calligraphy pen—both of which I had bought with my own money when I got back to Epiphany.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
Vocabulary lists containing calligraphy
Write On!: Graph and Gram
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