Chinese ink
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Iri was trained in traditional Chinese ink and wash painting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2020
Like the work of a traditional Chinese ink painter, her words sketch around spots of blankness, leaving suggestive lacunae.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 30, 2019
The setting at the Aug. 19 meeting was calm: A room with plush cream carpets, Chinese ink brush landscape paintings and a vase of purple orchids.
From Reuters ● Sep. 11, 2014
Some look like giant Rorschach blots, others like oversize Chinese ink brush swaths.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2012
Excepting for the pearl, the whole thing was uncommonly like one of those ornamental tablets of Chinese ink.
From John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
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