Handscroll

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A traditional Asian scroll that unfolds horizontally so that the reader can view one section at a time while holding it in the hands.

    "He is depicted by the painter Qian Xuan, another connoisseur of reclusion, in a 13th-century handscroll at the Metropolitan Museum of Art."

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"He is depicted by the painter Qian Xuan, another connoisseur of reclusion, in a 13th-century handscroll at the Metropolitan Museum of Art."

Etymology

From hand + scroll.

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