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feather pen
noun
A quill.
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Then he signed off on his choices with a fluffy feather pen.
It's basically the same thing that somebody would have done with a feather pen and a piece of paper 200 years ago.
But these pictures, from a series titled "Remix," are executed not in magniloquent oils but in fast, thin watercolor, mixed with passages in India ink applied with a feather pen.
Old English mutated -ende (German -end) in the present participle had already become -inde in late West Saxon, and it was this Southern -inde that blended with the -ing suffix (German -ung) of nouns of action that had already become near-gerunds in such compound nouns as athswering "oath swearing" and writingfether "writing feather, pen".
Sanz (Figure 1(b)) shows a handwritten style close to the modern one, with rounded notes and vertical stems with varying thickness due to the use of a feather pen.
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This and the presence of large amounts of debris such as bits of paper, straw, feathers, pen nibs and the like provide ample evidence of long life and heavy use for these volumes.
I literally mean the annoying kid crap that drives all parents crazy, like 20 inch pencils wrapped in feathers, pens shaped like hover-boards, and flashlights that double as calculators shaped like cell phones.
He shook his head, lost in admiration for the stunning vistas and cataclysms that had once flowed from Mort Feather's pen.
Using a feather-quill pen with a sharp-pointed nib dipped in iron-gall ink (the same ink that Leonardo had used some four hundred years earlier), Matlack copied the words onto a piece of vellum (fine parchment, i.e. calfskin, prepared for inscription by scraping, wetting, drying, bleaching, stretching, and liming).
There are images of other art, like the red chalk close-up of Laocoön and a feather-light pen-and-ink sketch after Raphael's "School of Athens".
"It's a dinosaur with huge wings made up of quill pen feathers, just like an eagle or a vulture.
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