Meanings
nounpen-and-wash (plural pen-and-washes)
plural pen-and-washes
- A type of picture drawn using ink applied with a pen and a brush.
Demon screwed in his monocle, unclicked out of its special flat case a small pen-and-wash and said he thought (did not doubt, in fact, but wished his certitude to be admired) that it was an unknown product of Parmigianino's tender art.
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 9
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