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Chinese ink

NOUN
India ink
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She paints classical Chinese ink landscapes and displays them on the walls of her home.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2022

Like the work of a traditional Chinese ink painter, her words sketch around spots of blankness, leaving suggestive lacunae.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2019

He was clicking through a slideshow that included an image of the building’s structural system hand-drawn in Chinese ink.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2017

The setting at the Aug. 19 meeting was calm: A room with plush cream carpets, Chinese ink brush landscape paintings and a vase of purple orchids.

From Reuters • Sep. 11, 2014

On the outside, they are adorned with Chinese ink, and may be heard at the distance of a mile.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert




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