Indian ink
Americannoun
noun
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a black pigment made from a mixture of lampblack and a binding agent such as gelatine or glue: usually formed into solid cakes and sticks
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a black liquid ink made from this pigment
Example Sentences
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Kirk Andrews, from Stourbridge, has produced a series called Music Icons - and his latest piece is an Indian ink stamp image of Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2023
He got up, held it close to my eyes: and I read, traced in Indian ink, in my own handwriting, the words “JANE EYRE”—the work doubtless of some moment of abstraction.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
If we spread a layer of salt water on a horizontal glass plate, and sow in it drops of Indian ink, artificial cells are produced by diffusion.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
Ho himself, subsequently, during the French Revolution, produced from blue, red, and white the most beautiful ivory black, or the Indian ink with which Napoleon afterwards painted.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
The particles of Indian ink may be seen passing from one drop to another, the coloured circles become elongated towards one another, touch, and finally unite.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
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