PEN-AND-INK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pen-and-ink mean? 

• PEN-AND-INK (noun)
  The noun PEN-AND-INK has 1 sense:

1. a drawing executed with pen and ink

  Familiarity information: PEN-AND-INK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEN-AND-INK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A drawing executed with pen and ink

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pen-and-ink" is a kind of...):

drawing (a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines)

 Context examples 

Amy's dainty pen-and-ink work entirely eclipsed May's painted vases—that was one thorn.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When I had groped my way, blindly, through these difficulties, and had mastered the alphabet, which was an Egyptian Temple in itself, there then appeared a procession of new horrors, called arbitrary characters; the most despotic characters I have ever known; who insisted, for instance, that a thing like the beginning of a cobweb, meant expectation, and that a pen-and-ink sky-rocket, stood for disadvantageous.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For a long time there was a lull in the 'mud-pie' business, and she devoted herself to the finest pen-and-ink drawing, in which she showed such taste and skill that her graceful handiwork proved both pleasant and profitable.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)