"inkstain" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From ink + stain.",
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          "text": "He was shabby and careless, with inkstains on the sleeves of his jacket, and his cravat was large and billowy, under a chin shaped like the toe of an old boot.",
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          "ref": "1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 15, in Bertram Cope's Year:",
          "text": "She noticed, too, an inkstain on his right forefinger and judged that the daily grind of theme-correction was going on in spite of everything.\n-\nCope, flushed and now rather tired, walked up stairs with his photographs, took a perfunctory sip from a medicine-glass, looked at the inkstain on his finger, and sat down at his table. Two or three sheets of a letter were lying on it, and he re-read a paragraph or so before dipping his pen.",
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        "A spot or area that has been discoloured by absorbing ink."
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