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J pen en · NOUN

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1. (historical) A kind of fountain pen with a broad, stubby nib, originally stamped with a "J".
   • [A] few days later, on his way to the football field, he went into a shop and bought a pennyworth of J pens. 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 12, in Of Human Bondage:
   • The calligraphy was, like the paper, unusual, bold, decided, and, I should have guessed, produced by a J pen. 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

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