atrament
noun/ˈæ.tɹə.mɛnt/
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English atrament, from Latin ātrāmentum, from ātrāre (“to blacken”), from āter (“black”). First attested in the 14th century.
- derived from ātrāmentum
- inherited from atrament
Definitions
Ink or an inklike substance.
Any particularly black liquid substance.
- The irises of those eyes, whose pupils were blacker than atrament, varied singularly in shades of shifting colour.
- Everything was lost to sight in that ponderous atrament which precedes the dawn.
- Onyx flashed in her hair, and the delicate fabric that revealed, concealing, the outlines of her face and her body had the same silvery atrament of the stars.
The neighborhood
- neighboratramentaceous
- neighboratramental
- neighboratramentarious
- neighboratramentous
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for atrament. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA