“text、hand”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

text-hand

释义

ˈtext-hand
A fine large hand in writing. a. orig. One of the larger and more formal hands in which the text of a book was often written, as distinct from the smaller or more cursive hand appropriate to the gloss, etc. See also quot. 1688. b. Now usually applied to a school-hand written in lines about half an inch wide.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 224 He had taken vp..an instrumente written in greate letters of texte-hande.1599[see text v. 1].1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 414/2 These are the form of the Letters..used by the Germans; and are termed the Text Hand Letters.1796Pegge Anonym. (1809) 475 It is called text-hand and text-letter because the text was ever wrote in a large hand and the comment in a small. As text-hand is both square and round, it means little more than a large hand of each sort.1821Scott Kenilw. xxxi, You seem wondrous slow in reading text hand.

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