microscript
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
microscript (plural microscripts)
- Very small lettering (especially handwriting), or a handwritten manuscript consisting of such writing.
- 2005, Christopher Middleton, Speaking to the Rose:
- 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.
- 2014, Ben Lerner, 10:04, page 216:
- “Do you see this?” he said, holding the pad up to me, which was now largely covered in a kind of microscript.
- 2016 November, Andrew Gallix, “The Making of Mersault”, in Literary Review:
- All he had to do was replicate his near-indecipherable microscript, originally developed in response to an acute paper shortage.