Crossword clues for graffito
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graffito \Graf*fi"to\, n. [It., fr. graffio a scratching.]
(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.
the singular form of graffiti, seldom used.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
singular of graffiti (q.v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (qualifier: archaeology and related fields) An informal inscription, as by a worker or vandal. 2 (context rare English) A single instance of graffiti in the art/vandalism sense.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Graffito is the singular form of the Italian graffiti, meaning "little scratch".
Graffito may also refer to:
- Graffito (drawing technique)
- Graffito (archaeology)
A graffito (plural "graffiti"), in an archaeological context, is a deliberate mark made by scratching or engraving on a large surface such as a wall. The marks may form an image or writing. The term is not usually used of the engraved decoration on small objects such as bones, which make up a large part of the Art of the Upper Paleolithic, but might be used of the engraved images, usually of animals, that are commonly found in caves, though much less well known than the cave paintings of the same period; often the two are found in the same caves. In archaeology, the term may or may not include the more common modern sense of an "unauthorised" addition to a building or monument. Sgraffito, a decorative technique of partially scratching off a top layer of plaster or some other material to reveal a differently coloured material beneath, is also sometimes known as "graffito".
Usage examples of "graffito".
There was graffiti allover the walls of Jale, or Yule, or whatever its name is, that said, with cheerful obscenity, Carver Cabwell is a Harvard man.
She also noticed large areas of graffiti on walls and other structures or objects.
And in Lehman Cavern, Markoff Chaney disgustedly pointed out a graffito to Saul and Barney: HELP STAMP OUT SIZEISM: TAKE A MIDGET TO LUNCH.
The only difference was that someone had removed the boarding evidently meant to keep unwanted house hunters out, a someone who did not in tend to be put off by any would-be attempts to remove them if the graffiti scrawled across the doors and windows were anything to go by, Garth decided as he briefly read the colloquial message to the effect that uninvited visitors would not be welcome.
It was a little hole-in-the-wall of black-painted brick, shoehorned between brownstones that seemed to sag under the weight of innumerable layers of graffiti.
If somebody wanted to cut welfare benefits they were a Nazi, if somebody wanted to raise the busfares they were a Nazi, if they objected to graffiti they were a Nazi.
At the second close, he chose not to waste any more time and ran in, passing dimly lit doorways festooned with graffiti, dank walls, and frozen cobbles.
Gnawer lair led across vacant rubble-strewn lots, down streets lined with storefront churches, overpriced, grocery and liquor stores, cheap eateries offering fast food soaked with grease, vacant buildings with smashed windows and cryptic, elaborate graffiti sprayed in layers across their walls.
She remembers Spain is full of contradictions, recalling the graffiti on stern Malagan walls, and is talking about this when the man with the drill calls for her.
Lowered steel gratings, bedecked with graffiti, covered the closed ground-floor storefronts, while unspooled razor wire ran along the edges of the rooftops, discouraging prowlers.
As they drove farther into the badlands, Marlowe noticed that there was an increasing amount of graffiti scrawled on the highway signs.
You got some quiet little beauty spot miles from anywhere, and there was always some graffiti artist ready to spoil it.
Hip-hop’s four legs delivered everything: music in DJ’ing, poetry in MC rapping, dance in the b-boy’s breakdancing and art in Jax’s own contribution, graffiti.
Dust and sand had duned at the bottom of it, and someone had tagged the walls with ballooning purple graffiti.
Americans were always labeling things with the America logo: American Dream, American Buffalo, American Graffiti, American Psycho, American Tune.