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  • noun Any form of clear lettering designed to be used on signs
  • noun The art or process of writing signs.

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Examples

  • Chloe Geoghegan showed us her lovely embroidered naive signwriting.

    Statistically Improbable Phrases » What, if Anything, is Big Bird? 2010

  • The most interesting thing I learned from this very exceptional woman (who is deaf since birth and has two hearing children), and spoke like you and I, was a special request she made, that cell phone manufacturers integrate “dactylology” or signwriting, the digital version of sign language which is widely available for computer keyboards.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » SMS for Deaf 2003

  • Apart from thousands of citizens, transport companies are also joining the protest with one company signwriting a huge curtain-sided trailer with a message to President Nelson Mandela to take the lead against crime.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • "The truck had signwriting down the sides of the trailers that it was towing."

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • From this man and by laborious study and practice in his spare time, aided by a certain measure of natural ability, the boy acquired a knowledge of decorative painting and design, and graining and signwriting.

    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

  • Mrs Nightingale said it had cost $282 to replace the door and she expected to lay out a further $180 to have the signwriting applied to the new glass.

    The Border Mail - Front Page 2010

  • So I'll just change the signwriting on me white van ...

    Guy Fawkes' blog 2008

  • So I'll just change the signwriting on me white van ...

    British Blogs 2008

  • So I'll just change the signwriting on me white van ...

    Guy Fawkes' blog 2008

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