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penman

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pen·man  (pnmn)
n.
1. A copyist; a scribe.
2. An expert in penmanship.
3. An author; a writer.
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Noun1.penman - informal terms for journalists
journalist - a writer for newspapers and magazines

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The bachelor offered to write the letters in reply for Teresa; but she did not care to let him mix himself up in her affairs, for she thought him somewhat given to joking; and so she gave a cake and a couple of eggs to a young acolyte who was a penman, and he wrote for her two letters, one for her husband and the other for the duchess, dictated out of her own head, which are not the worst inserted in this great history, as will be seen farther on.
For his errand at Torwood Park was a political one; it was the place of appointment named by no less a person than the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Howard Horne, then introducing his so-called Socialist budget, and prepared to expound it in an interview with so promising a penman.
The Captain evidently was not a great penman, and Rosamond reflected that the sisters might have been abroad.
 
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