graffito

• WordNet 3.6
  • n graffito a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls
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• Interesting fact: Graffito is the little-used singular of the much used plural word graffiti.
• • Graffito (Art) Production of decorative designs by scratching them through a surface of layer plaster, glazing, etc., revealing a different-colored ground; also, pottery or ware so decorated; -- chiefly used attributively.
  • Graffito the singular form of graffiti, seldom used.
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• • n graffito In archaeology, an ancient scribbling scratched, painted, or otherwise marked on a wall, column, tablet, or other surface. Graffiti abound on nearly all sites of ancient civilization, particularly those under Roman domination. They comprise more or less rude sketches, names, sentences, and remarks of all kinds, like similar modern scribblings, and are often of much archæological and historical importance.
  • n graffito In art, a scratching or scoring for the production of designs or effects.
  • n graffito A vessel of pottery decorated in graffito.
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• • n Graffito graf-fē′to the name given to certain classes of mural inscriptions, such as the scribblings of schoolboys and idlers, found at Pompeii, Rome, and other ancient cities
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