inkstain
inkstain noun: a spot or area that has been discoloured by absorbing ink.
Noun
inkstain (plural inkstains)
- A spot or area that has been discoloured by absorbing ink.
- 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
- 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.
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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...1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 15, in Bertram Cope's Year
Forms of inkstain
| plural | inkstains |
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Origin of inkstain
From ink + stain.
Words formed from inkstain
Questions about inkstain
- What does inkstain mean?
- Inkstain means a spot or area that has been discoloured by absorbing ink.
- What part of speech is inkstain?
- Inkstain is a noun.
- What is the plural of inkstain?
- The plural of inkstain is inkstains.
Words near inkstain in the dictionary
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