China ink
Britishnoun
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There were a dozen scarlet coffee bins with adventurous words written across the front in black China ink: Brazil!
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
A slight snow-shower had given to the landscape a sort of copperplate effect, but still the forms of things, though but sketched, as it were, with China ink, were calculated to produce interesting impressions.
From The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family by Galt, John
Sepia pieces are more agreeable than the neatest drawings in China ink, or the most graceful curves done in chalk upon a blackboard.
From The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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 Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Ink in the notes on the least prominent parts of the flint, in small capital letters, when in camp, with waterproof China ink.
From How to Observe in Archaeology by Various
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