Indian ink

American  

noun

1. (sometimes lowercase) India ink.

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Indian ink British  

noun

1. 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

2. a black liquid ink made from this pigment

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Indian ink

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

Indian ink stains should in the first instance be assisted out with hot water.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Brown freestone     Mixture of pale Indian ink, burnt sienna, and carmine.

From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan

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