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• n  someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

• In the age of the ready-made and the copyist, private luxuries are now public domain.
• So when lost-in-thought Professor Sylvester Gayton trips into the Pitti or Uffizi, guards jump to attention, bow low, chatter thereafter of the lucky copyist whose work he has .
• It's not so much that Borduas was a copyist as that he was opening himself up to learning.

• scribe
• scrivener

Quotes

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• Gioacchino Rossini in Vancouver Sun
  Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair. In my time, all the impresarios in Italy were bald at thirty,is in fact what...