Chinese ink
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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She paints classical Chinese ink landscapes and displays them on the walls of her home.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2022
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
He was clicking through a slideshow that included an image of the building’s structural system hand-drawn in Chinese ink.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2017
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
The paper is common cream-laid notepaper, and the ink is ordinary indelible Chinese ink, such as is used by draughtsmen.
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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