0 an old-fashioned decorative style of writing with long, flowing letters
Ellen worked an hour or two every evening on the novel, and next day Andrew copied it in a hand like copperplate—large, with ornate flourishes.
Jane's was a copperplate production, with every "t" nicely crossed and every "i" precisely dotted, and not an interesting sentence in it.
She has a beautiful voice and writes a hand that looks like copperplate.
The first step a hedge schoolmaster took, on establishing himself in a school, was to write out, in his best copperplate hand, a flaming advertisement, detailing, at full length, the several branches he professed himself capable of teaching.
He had replaced the wire mesh in his vatman's mold with a brass screen, which produced unmarked sheets fit for fine printing and copperplate engraving.
The four-volume monograph includes 3936 pages of text and 116 copperplates and very many single illustrations in the texts (especially in the fourth volume).
People will no longer be required to keep ledgers in beautiful copperplate, write letters, or make calculations for accounts.
I had a vision of hundreds of clerks with quill pens writing copperplate entries in pension books.
