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- noun Any form of clear
lettering designed to be used onsigns - noun The art or process of
writing signs .
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Examples
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Chloe Geoghegan showed us her lovely embroidered naive signwriting.
Statistically Improbable Phrases » What, if Anything, is Big Bird? 2010
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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.
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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.
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"The truck had signwriting down the sides of the trailers that it was towing."
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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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
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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.
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So I'll just change the signwriting on me white van ...
Guy Fawkes' blog 2008
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So I'll just change the signwriting on me white van ...
British Blogs 2008
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So I'll just change the signwriting on me white van ...
Guy Fawkes' blog 2008
alexz commented on the word signwriting
spotted this as Sutton Signwriting - the symbols used to describe signlanguage.
unicode set: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D800.pdf
May 2, 2017