copybooks
Penmanship practice pads
Copybooks are notebooks with printed examples of handwriting for students to imitate, once standard in teaching penmanship.
Lines of perfect script appeared at the top of each page for copying below.
The phrase to blot one's copybook means to damage one's reputation through a mistake or misdeed—as ink blots would ruin an otherwise clean page of careful work.
Ornamental handwriting art
- cursiveJoined handwriting style
- scriptWritten words for performance
- handwritingManual letter formation
- penmanshipSkill of forming letters
letterforms · strokes · tracing · loops · slant · spacing · neatness · ink
Activities for fitness
- drillsRepetitive training routines
- lessonsUnits of teaching
- ruledExercised sovereign authority
- linedMarked with parallel marks
workbooks · homework · students · classroom · primary · elementary · desks · inkwells
Mark left by spillage
- maximsSuccinct statements of truth
- proverbsTraditional wisdom capsules
- aphorismsConcise memorable truths
- KiplingVictorian jungle storyteller
platitudes · precepts · truisms · adages · exemplary · propriety
Blank pages for jottings
- paperPressed pulp for writing
- boundSecured or destined
- stitchedFastened with thread
- pagesBound paper sheets
covers · spine · thin · stack · blank · writing · composition · jotter
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- antiqueOld valued collectible
- collectibleObject worth amassing
- ephemeraDisposables preserved as collectibles
nostalgia · slate · heritage · historical · old-fashioned · heirloom · memorabilia · primer
calligraphy
Ornamental handwriting art
- cursiveJoined handwriting style
- scriptWritten words for performance
- handwritingManual letter formation
penmanship · letterforms · strokes · tracing · loops · slant · spacing · neatness · ink · Spencerian
exercises
Activities for fitness
lined · workbooks · homework · students · classroom · primary · elementary · desks · inkwells · spelling
blot
Mark left by spillage
- maximsSuccinct statements of truth
- proverbsTraditional wisdom capsules
- aphorismsConcise memorable truths
Kipling · platitudes · precepts · truisms · adages · exemplary · propriety
notebook
Blank pages for jottings
pages · covers · spine · thin · stack · blank · writing · composition · jotter · pad
Victorian
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- antiqueOld valued collectible
- collectibleObject worth amassing
ephemera · nostalgia · slate · heritage · historical · old-fashioned · heirloom · memorabilia · primer · nineteenth-century
- Korean calligraphycalligraphy brush, inkstone, stroke order, bamboo brush, brush
- literacy historyGutenberg, printing press, scribes, illuminated manuscripts, movable type
- Old Schoolbooksprimers, hornbooks, catechisms, reading primers
- school recordsstudent records, academic records, diplomas, certificates, transcripts
- Chinese writinghanzi, characters, character, radical, radicals
copybookssketchbooks
Blank books for illustrations
blank slates · original manuscripts · composition books · scratch pads · journals
copybooksrule-breaking
Disregarding established standards
nonconformity · originality · rebellion · improvisation · iconoclasm