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secretary hands

secretary hands is the plural of secretary hand.

Meaning of secretary hand

Noun

secretary hand (countable and uncountable, plural secretary hands)

  1. (historical) 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,[…].1961, Bernard Mellor, The Poems of Sir Francis Hubert, page 280

Questions about secretary hands

What is secretary hands the plural of?
Secretary hands is the plural of secretary hand.

Words near secretary hands in the dictionary

  1. secretary birds
  2. secretary desk
  3. secretary desks
  4. secretary general
  5. secretary hand
  6. secretary hands
  7. secretary of state
  8. secretary problem
  9. secretary problems
  10. secretary spread
  11. secretary-general

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