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secretary hand

noun

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  1. A style of handwriting developed in Europe and used during the 16th and 17th centuries…

    A style of handwriting developed in Europe and used during the 16th and 17th centuries for writing English, German, Welsh and Gaelic; a variety of this style.

    • It is written in three different Secretary hands: the first finishing at stanza 9 but with stanzas unnumbered,[…].
    • When Mercy Harvey advised the nobleman to imitate her handwriting, she specified that he should write the address on the outside of the letter in "a small raggid secretary hand."
    • There are five scribes, all using variations on Secretary hands consistent with the third quarter of the fifteenth century.

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