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quill pen

noun

  1. another name for quill
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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I would exercise my First Amendment right to free speech—but in the old-fashioned way: by scratching out pamphlets with a quill pen and handing them out on the street.

From Slate

And so I filled my inkwell, put a quill pen to my chin and cried, “A playlist is in order!”

In her right hand is a quill pen, paused.

Campbell responded: “Who could fail to be similarly moved? It is as if the complete works of Shakespeare were written with a quill pen.”

Inspired by Romeo and Juliet, Love Story is a "quill pen" song where "the words and phrasings are antiquated" like "a letter written by Emily Dickinson's great grandmother while sewing a lace curtain".

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