China ink

noun

1. another name for Indian ink

Example Sentences

There were a dozen scarlet coffee bins with adventurous words written across the front in black China ink: Brazil!

From Literature

Sepia, sē′pi-a, n. a fine, brown pigment used as a water-colour—from the ink-bag of a few species of cuttle-fish: Indian or China ink: a genus of cuttle-fishes.—n.pl.

From Project Gutenberg

The pharaoh found in it statues of gods, woven stuffs, rings from India, small morsels of opium, and in a second division handfuls of rice, leaves of tea, two porcelain cups ornamented with pictures, and a number of drawings made on paper with China ink and colors.

From Project Gutenberg

But the 20 Beijing-based journalists interviewed by University of Iowa journalism professor Judy Polumbaum in China Ink fall somewhere in the middle.

From Time Magazine Archive

China Ink instead tells the story of the everyday fight to sidestep propaganda and produce a serviceable publication or program.

From Time Magazine Archive