diplogram

Updated: June 28, 2025

His rendering of "Cher Lix," for instance, takes the shape of a graceful monogram, or diplogram, or whatever I ought to call a combination of our two profiles and my name. He starts a short missive with a sketch of himself seated in his trunk, pipe in mouth, and says: "Dear Bobtail, I write to you out of sheer idleness, so as to have an excuse not to pack up for the next half-hour."

Felix Moscheles - In Bohemia with Du Maurier: The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences