How to pronounce copperplate
American English pronunciation
KAH-per-playt
- IPA
- /ˈkɑpɚˌpleɪt/
- Syllables
- KAH · per · playt (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What copperplate means
Neat, flowing handwriting with slanted, looping letters
In a sentence: Great-grandma wrote her recipes in copperplate, with tall loops on every letter.
Where it comes from: It is named after the copper plates once used to print fine, clear writing. The handwriting copied from those prints was called copperplate by the 1820s.
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