penholder
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
penholder (plural penholders)
- A device for storing pens while they are not being used.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 207:
- He was amazing, and had a penholder behind his ear.
- Alternative form of penhold
Translations[edit]
a device for storing pens
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