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sgraffiti

n. (plural of sgraffito English)

WordNet
sgraffito
  1. n. a ceramic or mural decoration made by scratching off a surface layer to reveal the ground

  2. [also: sgraffiti (pl)]

sgraffiti

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Usage examples of "sgraffiti".

I rather liked the box, except for its smell and the Jugendstil athletes in the sgraffiti and frescoes.

The Pestalozzi School was a new brick-red, three-story, flat-roofed, boxlike edifice, decorated with sgraffiti and frescoes, which had been built by the Senate of our prolific suburb at the vociferous insistence of the Social Democrats, who at the time were still exceedingly active.