longhand

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper
adjective having words written out in full by hand

From long + hand, by analogy with shorthand.

) LONGHAND AND SHORTHAND: (Without looking up from their notebooks. — Ulysses, James Joyce
Snapshot photo of woman, apparently wife Snapshot photo of infant White card with longhand, “Embassy USSR, 1609 Decatur, NW, Washington, D. C., Consular REZHUYEHKO” (indistinct) Department of Defense Identification No. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
I Find Some New Relations The letter which lay before me had been written in old-fashioned longhand on the business stationery of the law firm of Eldon & Crawford, their given address being Calverton, Maryland. — In Jeopardy, Van Tassel Sutphen

running hand, cursive, cursive script

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