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atraments

atraments is the plural of atrament.

Meaning of atrament

Noun

atrament (countable and uncountable, plural atraments or atramenta)

  1. (archaic) Ink or an inklike substance.
  2. (figuratively, rare) Any particularly black liquid substance.
    • The irises of those eyes, whose pupils were blacker than atrament, varied singularly in shades of shifting colour.1908, Théophile Gautier, “King Candaules”, in Lafcadio Hearn, transl., Stories, New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, →OCLC, page 91

Questions about atraments

What is atraments the plural of?
Atraments is the plural of atrament.

Words near atraments in the dictionary

  1. atramentaceous
  2. atramental
  3. atramentarious
  4. atramentary
  5. atramentous
  6. atraments
  7. atrane
  8. atranes
  9. atranorin
  10. atrasentan
  11. atrate

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