brush-pen

English

Noun

brush-pen (plural brush-pens)

1. Alternative form of brush pen
   • 2010, Leila Avrin -, Scribes, Script, and Books, →ISBN:

     The scribe had to dip his brush-pen quite often; he could write only five to nine hieroglyphic characters with each dip.

   • 2011, Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, Collected Writings on Chinese Culture, →ISBN, page 3:

     The use of the brush-pen and lampblack ink as the basic vehicle for committing thoughts to writing can be traced back to remote antiquity in China.

   • 2011, Reginald F. Johnston, Lion and Dragon in Northern China, →ISBN, page 190:

     If, for instance, the shadow seems to take the shape of a Chinese brush-pen, the boy will become a great scholar; if it is shaped like a plough he will remain in the condition of a peasant or farmer.