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inkstain en · NOUN

Etymology

From ink + stain.

Meanings

1. A spot or area that has been discoloured by absorbing ink.
   • She noticed, too, an inkstain on his right forefinger and judged that the daily grind of theme-correction was going on in spite of everything. - Cope, flushed and now rather tired, walked up stairs with his photographs, took a perfunctory sip from a medicine-glass, looked at the inkstain on his finger, and sat down at his table. Two or three sheets of a letter were lying on it, and he re-read a paragraph or so before dipping his pen. 1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 15, in Bertram Cope's Year:
   • He was shabby and careless, with inkstains on the sleeves of his jacket, and his cravat was large and billowy, under a chin shaped like the toe of an old boot. 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:

Forms

Deriveds

inkstained

Translations (1)

pl kleks (Translations)