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chancery hands

chancery hands is the plural of chancery hand.

Meaning of chancery hand

Noun

chancery hand (plural chancery hands)

  1. (historical) Either of two styles of handwriting: a written form of black letter used in France and England from about 1350, developed in the Lateran chancelry in the 13th century, or a style of cursive handwriting introduced in the 1420s by Niccolò de' Niccoli, developed from humanist minuscule; a variety of either of these styles.
    • It begins like a transcript, at the top of the page, without the least appearance or form of an intended original : it is written in the common secretary hand of ,the age, which Crawford mistook for a chancery hand;[…].1819, Malcolm Laing, The History of Scotland, volume 1, page 373

Questions about chancery hands

What is chancery hands the plural of?
Chancery hands is the plural of chancery hand.

Words near chancery hands in the dictionary

  1. chancers
  2. chancery
  3. chancery court
  4. chancery courts
  5. chancery hand
  6. chancery hands
  7. Chancery Standard
  8. chances
  9. chances are
  10. chances on
  11. chances one's arm

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