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A ceramic or mural decoration made by scratching off a surface layer to reveal the ground
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sgraffito
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Wikipedia
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Sgraffito (; plural: sgraffiti ; sometimes spelled scraffito ) is a technique either of wall decor, produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colours to a moistened surface, or in ceramics , by applying to an unfired ceramic body two ...
Wiktionary
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n. A technique in ceramics, art and wall design, where the top layer of pigment or slip is scratched through to reveal an underlying layer. vb. To produce a design using this technique.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sgraffito \Sgraf*fi"to\, a. [It.] (Paint.) Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.
WordNet
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n. a ceramic or mural decoration made by scratching off a surface layer to reveal the ground [also: sgraffiti (pl)]
Usage examples of sgraffito.
Via Santo Spirito and paused just before the entrance to Coverelli, flattening himself against the ancient sgraffito facade of some long-forgotten palace.
Along the embankment the flowering almonds made the fading air flush like dawn, and all up the staircases of the Lucerna, between the crumbling sgraffito and the baroque stone vases, the heady boughs of the false acacia, vivid green and virgin white, leaned down faint with fragrance over the heads of lovers.
The street, narrowing, closed in upon her and veiled her in its own obscurity, on either hand a palace, its deep windows barred in behind wrought-iron grilles, its sgraffito walls corrugating the darkness with deeper shadows.
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.