Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Ink

Pancirollus says the emperors used a fluid for writing called encaustum. (Italian, inchiostro; French, encre; Dutch, inkt.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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