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penmanship1690s, from obsolete penman "copyist, clerk, scrivener" + -ship.
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penmanship(n) beautiful handwriting
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penmanshipThe “Good King Réné,” titular king of Naples in the middle of the fifteenth century, was noted for his initial letters.
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penmanshipDickens says of John Bell, of the Chancery, that he wrote three hands: one which only he himself could read, one which only his clerk could read, and one which nobody could read. Dean Stanley wrote ab [..]
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