copperplate

== English == === Etymology === From copper +‎ plate. For the plate used for engraving: in the 1660s. As a term for the printed product: from 1817. Of the especially clear writing used in such prints: from the 1820s. Use as a verb (the past participle copperplated) is from 1822. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑpərˌpleɪt/ === Noun === copperplate (countable and uncountable, plural copperplates) A copper plate, either etched or engraved, to make a recessed pattern. A print made from such a plate. A style of handwriting based on that used on such prints; English round hand. 1999. Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 36 (2001 Perennial paperback edition). The village school was a fine school […] He learned his reading and had a fair copperplate hand. === Verb === copperplate (third-person singular simple present copperplates, present participle copperplating, simple past and past participle copperplated) To engrave on and print from a copperplate.