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Meaning of inke | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of ink.

alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“Whoſe corage when the feend perceiud to ſhrinke, / She poured forth out of her helliſh ſinke / Her fruitfull curſed ſpawne of ſerpents ſmall, / Deformed monſters, fowle, and blacke as inke, / Which ſwarming all about his legs did crall, / And him encombred ſore, but could not hurt at all.”
“So it was, that the most of these aboue named goosequil braccahadocheos were meere cowards and crauens, and durst not so much as throw a penfull of inke into the enimies face, if proofe were made, wherefore on the experience of their pusellanimitie I thought to raise the foundation of my roguerie.”
“While I was waiting for him in the Matted Gallery, a young man was most finely working in Indian inke the great picture of the King and Queen sitting [Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France], by Van Dyke [Anthony van Dyck]; and did it very finely.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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