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Definition of "quill pen" []

  • Pen made from a bird's feather (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "quill pen" in a sentence
  • "Rendered at the height of the hagiographic period in American historiography, the fresco depicts Robert Morris, quill pen in hand, accepting a bag of gold from Mercury, the Roman god of commerce."
  • "Charlie resigned himself to sputtering along with a quill pen and fish-gland ink on sheets of flexible bark."
  • "The Countess of Haverford, seated at the small escritoire in the library at Dunbarton, held her quill pen poised above one of the elegant cards 'in which she had been writing when her son had entered the room a few moments before."
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