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Inkiness

noun
1.
The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white).  Synonyms: black, blackness.






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"Inkiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... curls and tendrils. Below this exquisite massing of line and color, against a low broad forehead, were set, crookedly, short narrow eyebrows of an intense black; her eyelashes were of the same divine inkiness, very warm and long; a mouth level to the world, resolute, at the corners a little smiling, was scarlet against a ...
— The Penalty • Gouverneur Morris

... to refer to the matter again. But the next week, from certain little affectations of tremendous mystery on Dolly's part, and the absence of the library copy of 'Illusion' from the morning-room during one whole afternoon, after which it reappeared in a state of preternatural inkiness, Mabel had a suspicion that her suggestion was not so ...
— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey

... refer to the matter again. But the next week, from certain little affectations of tremendous mystery on Dolly's part, and the absence of the library copy of 'Illusion' from the morning-room during one whole afternoon, after which it reappeared in a state of preternatural inkiness, Mabel had a suspicion that her suggestion was not so disregarded as ...
— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey



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