a term of the literary language, a learned or bookish word; so also inkhorn desire, inkhorn language, inkhorn word.
A small portable vessel (originally made of a horn) for holding writing-ink: now seldom used. †to smell of the inkhorn, to be pedantic; term of in…
A learned or pedantic word or expression; an inkhorn term or phrase.
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