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grass script

noun

Etymology

Calque from Chinese 草書／草书 (cǎoshū), mistaking the character 草 (cǎo) as meaning grass, when in fact it refers to writing which is careless; sloppy; hasty, for example the meaning implied in the compound words 潦草 (liáocǎo) and 草率 (cǎoshuài).

  1. derived from 草書／草书

Definitions

  1. A style of cursive script used in Chinese calligraphy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for grass script. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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