"gall-nut ink" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: gall-nut inks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} gall-nut ink (plural gall-nut inks)
  1. acid blue-to-black ink, blue or purple when fresh, but turning intense black from iron oxidation, containing iron ions and tannic acids obtained from crushed gall-nuts and a solution of gum, or glue, and copperas, slowly replaced carbon ink and used from late antiquity to 20th century Synonyms: gall nut ink, gallnut ink, iron-gall ink, iron gall ink, oak-gall ink, oak gall ink, standard ink, common ink Translations (ink obtained from crushed gallnuts): encre de noix de galle (French), Eisengallustinte [feminine] (German), Gallustinte [feminine] (German), inchiostro metallo-gallico [masculine] (Italian), inchiostro ferrogallico [masculine] (Italian), tinta metalogálica [feminine] (Portuguese), tinta ferrogálica [feminine] (Portuguese), tinta de agallas [feminine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "ink obtained from crushed gallnuts",
      "word": "encre de noix de galle"
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