atrament

Definition

Ink or an inklike substance.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English atrament, from Latin ātrāmentum, from ātrāre (“to blacken”), from āter (“black”). First attested in the 14th century.

Example Sentences

• "The irises of those eyes, whose pupils were blacker than atrament, varied singularly in shades of shifting colour."
• "Everything was lost to sight in that ponderous atrament which precedes the dawn."
• "Onyx flashed in her hair, and the delicate fabric that revealed, concealing, the outlines of her face and her body had the same silvery atrament of the stars."