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inkhorn term

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inkhorn term
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(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an affectedly learned and obscure borrowing from another language, esp Greek or Latin
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Indeed, he shares his magpie word collection with his character Will Shakespeare, in a book inside a book in the novel Egypt (1987): Will, grown tall and earnest looking, played the pedant Rhombus, a stock comedy character he was good at: pedants and scholars with mouthfuls of inkhorn terms he alone of the boys could commit easily to memory.
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