China ink

British  

noun

1. another name for Indian ink

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Example Sentences

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

India ink, sometimes called China ink, or as formerly known by the ancients and in classical and later times "Indian ink," is now used more for drawing and engrossing than it is for commercial purposes.

From Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by Carvalho, David Nunes

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

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

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