Inkhorn Terms

This phrase, once common, might be revived to signify pedantic expressions which smell of the lamp.

⁂ Shakespeare uses the phrase, an “Inkhorn mate” (1 Henry VI., iii. 1).

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.