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copyist noun [ ˈkɒpɪɪst ]

• a person who makes copies, especially of handwritten documents or music.
• "the end of the first movement is in the hand of a copyist"
Origin: mid 17th century: from copy + -ist; replacing earlier copist, from French copiste or medieval Latin copista, from copiare ‘to copy’, from copia (see copy).


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