Meanings
nounJ pen (plural J pens)
plural J pens
- historicalA kind of fountain pen with a broad, stubby nib, originally stamped with a "J".
[A] few days later, on his way to the football field, he went into a shop and bought a pennyworth of J pens.
1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 12, in Of Human Bondage1 more example
The calligraphy was, like the paper, unusual, bold, decided, and, I should have guessed, produced by a J pen.
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
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