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India ink
noun
, (sometimes lowercase)
- a black pigment consisting of lampblack mixed with glue or size.
- a liquid ink from this.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of India ink1
First recorded in 1655–65
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Example Sentences
The Japanese artist makes his little world,—often nothing but an India-ink world,—but its occupants live within it.
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Belemnites have sometimes been sketched with fossil sepia, or india ink, from their own ink sacs.
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Belief shading for maps can also be made with a brush in flat washes of either india ink or lampblack.
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I have had this paper translated into English and illustrated by india-ink drawings.
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They should be marked with india-ink in large, plain figures.
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