pen-and-ink

1. 1.

   a drawing executed with pen and ink

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Questions about pen-and-ink

What does pen-and-ink mean?

pen-and-ink means "a drawing executed with pen and ink".

How many syllables are in pen-and-ink?

pen-and-ink has 3 syllables: pe-n-an-d-ink. The stress falls on "pe".

Is pen-and-ink a common word?

pen-and-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.