Meanings
plural microscripts
- Very small lettering (especially handwriting), or a handwritten manuscript consisting of such writing.
“Do you see this?” he said, holding the pad up to me, which was now largely covered in a kind of microscript.
2014, Ben Lerner, 10:04, page 2162 more examples
Impromptu, selfreflexive, and distinctly owlish, the microscript is quite different from the two feuilletons that W. extracted from it for the periodical Sport im Bild.
2005, Christopher Middleton, Speaking to the RoseAll he had to do was replicate his near-indecipherable microscript, originally developed in response to an acute paper shortage.
2016 November, Andrew Gallix, “The Making of Mersault”, in Literary Review
Origin
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