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pen

/pɛn/ noun C2
  1. A female swan.

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Maxwell stood by his desk with his hands full of telegrams and memoranda, with a fountain pen over his right ear and his hair hanging in disorderly strings over his forehead.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 19 · C1
However, in the morning I determined to have a look at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for Pope’s Court.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 13 · B2
When school went out Anne marched to her desk, ostentatiously took out everything therein, books and writing tablet, pen and ink, testament and arithmetic, and piled them neatly on her cracked slate.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 119 · C1
“I am afraid you do not like your pen.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 51 · B2

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