microscript

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noun

Very small lettering (especially handwriting), or a handwritten manuscript consisting of such writing.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounmicroscript (plural microscripts)

plural microscripts

  1. 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 216
    2 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 Rose

    All 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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