inkwell
Noun
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Noun
inkwell (plural inkwells)
- A container for ink, designed and usually positioned so that a person may conveniently dip a pen into it whenever a refill is needed.
- 2011, Alan Bennett, "Baffled at a Bookcase", London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:
- The reference library itself proclaimed the substance of the city with its solid elbow chairs and long mahogany tables, grooved along the edge to hold a pen, and in the centre of each table a massive pewter inkwell.
- 2011, Alan Bennett, "Baffled at a Bookcase", London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:
- French: encrier
- German: Tintenfass
- Italian: calamaio
- Portuguese: tinteiro
- Russian: черни́льница
- Spanish: tintero
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