inkhorns
inkhorns is the plural of inkhorn.
Meaning of inkhorn
Noun
inkhorn (plural inkhorns)
- A small portable container, often made of horn, used to carry ink.
- Goe good partner, goe get you to Francis Seacole, bid him bring his pen and inkehorne to the Gaole: we are now to examine thoſe men.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Something or someone pedantic, obscurely scholarly.
- And ere that we will ſuffer ſuch a Prince,
So kinde a Father of the Common-weale,
To be diſgraced by an Inke-horne Mate,
Wee and our Wiues and Children all will fight
And haue our bodyes ſlaughtred by thy foes.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- And ere that we will ſuffer ſuch a Prince,
Questions about inkhorns
- What is inkhorns the plural of?
- Inkhorns is the plural of inkhorn.
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