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What (who) is Indian ink - definition
THEATRE PLAY OF TOM STOPPARD
Indian Ink (play)
Indian ink
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![A solid [[ink stick]] used for the preparation of ink](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Inkstick.jpg?width=200 "A solid [[ink stick]] used for the preparation of ink")
SIMPLE BLACK OR COLORED INK
Encre de chine; China ink; Chinese ink; India ink stain; Indian ink; India Ink; Black ink; Masi (india ink)
(also N. Amer. India ink)
¦ noun deep black ink containing dispersed carbon particles, used especially in drawing and technical graphics.
Origin
C17: orig. applied to Chinese and Japanese pigments prepared in solid blocks and imported to Europe via India.
India ink
SIMPLE BLACK OR COLORED INK
Encre de chine; China ink; Chinese ink; India ink stain; Indian ink; India Ink; Black ink; Masi (india ink)
India ink (British English: Indian ink; also Chinese ink) is a simple black or coloured ink once widely used for writing and printing and now more commonly used for drawing and outlining, especially when inking comic books and comic strips. India ink is also used in medical applications.
India ink
SIMPLE BLACK OR COLORED INK
Encre de chine; China ink; Chinese ink; India ink stain; Indian ink; India Ink; Black ink; Masi (india ink)
¦ noun North American term for Indian ink.
Wikipedia
Indian Ink
Indian Ink is a 1995 play by Tom Stoppard based on his 1991 radio play In the Native State.
Examples of use of Indian ink
1. Unlike the presidential election, there will be no Indian ink.
2. In jail, we used to make tricolours using turmeric and indian ink, unfurling them for the authorities to see.
3. The Korean painting, which has turned from Indian ink painting to colored painting, is developing to suit the modern aesthetics, keeping the traditional drawing technique alive.
4. The Korean painting with a long history reflects well the reality so as to give people cubic, chiaroscuro and infinitely spatial effects that one cannot feel at the European paintings based on surface representation and oriental paintings based on Indian ink and lines.
5. "But it means we should not draw in Indian ink some thick ‘faultline‘ according to some notional historical borders between civilisations and thus construct a kind of velvet curtain only a few years after we got rid of the iron curtain." His report on Turkey is expected to underline a significant lack of progress since accession talks began in October 2005 – largely because of the unresolved issue of the Ankara government‘s refusal to implement a customs union protocol obliging Turkey to open its ports and airports to Cypriot ships and planes.