marking ink

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   an indelible ink for marking clothes or linens etc.

   Broaderindelible ink

Questions about marking ink

What does marking ink mean?

marking ink means "an indelible ink for marking clothes or linens etc.".

Is marking ink a common word?

marking ink is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.