Class act. (Who, What, When & Where).
Following a fairly routine business exchange with a woman whose entire professional life is lived electronically--principally with an e-mail newsletter--NL/NL editor-publisher Paul Swift received in the mail a handwritten hand·write tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes To write by hand.
[Back-formation from handwritten.]
Adj. 1. thank-you note on an embossed em·boss tr.v. em·bossed, em·boss·ing, em·boss·es 1. To mold or carve in relief: emboss a design on a coin.
2. card. Long gone are the days when business executives used expensive stationery to send brief letters to associates, so this woman's classy class·y adj. class·i·er, class·i·est Informal Highly stylish; elegant.
class i·ness n. "thanks" stood out in the crowd.
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