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India Ink or Chinese ink

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So called because it was first brought from China. It is now made at home of lampblack and glue.

 

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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.

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