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‖ graffito Antiq. and Art.|grafˈfito, grəˈfiːtəʊ|
Pl. graffiti |grafˈfiti, grəˈfiːtiː|.
[It. graffito, f. graffio a scratch.]
A drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface; a scribbling on an ancient wall, as those at Pompeii and Rome. Also, a method of decoration in which designs are produced by scratches through a superficial layer of plaster, glazing, etc., revealing a ground of different colour; chiefly attrib., as in graffito-decoration, -pottery, -ware.
1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iv. iv. 286 The slight scratching of many of the Maeshowe Runes, and the consequent irregularity and want of precision in the forms..of what, it must be remembered, are mere graffiti. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets xi. 242 Even the Graffiti of Pompeii have scarcely more power to reconstruct the past and summon as in dreams the voices and the forms of long since buried men. 1873F. B. Palliser tr. Jacquemart's Hist. Ceramic Art 619 Index, Graffito decoration.
transf.1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xxi. 653 Visited by crowds of early travellers, who have as usual left their neatly-scribbled graffiti on the walls. 1886Dowden Shelley I. v. 179 She sang pleasantly; and could scribble such graffiti as may be found in school-girls' copy-books.
Add: Hence graˈffitist n., one who writes or draws graffiti.
1966New Statesman 2 Dec. 831/1 His gift is to bring out the scholiast—or the graffitist—in the reader. 1973New York 26 Mar. 33/2 For Pop Master and one-time graffitist Claes Oldenburg, the blossoming graffiti are like a dream come true. 1990E. Kraft Reservations Recommended ii. 41 The Graffitist leaves messages all over Boston, printed in small, precise capital letters.
▸ orig. U.S. In pl. with sing. concord. Words or images marked (illegally) in a public place, esp. using aerosol paint.
1967Chicago Tribune 28 May i. a6/6 Graffiti was being written in San Francisco, Berkeley,..and Montreal. There seems to be a sort of underground for graffiti writers. 1977‘E. McBain’ Long Time No See ix. 138 The graffiti was oversprayed—Spider 19 giving way to Dagger 21, in turn giving way to Salazar IV, so that nobody's name meant a rat's ass any more. 1990New Eng. Monthly Mar. 8/2 Graffiti is a destructive eyesore. 2004Philadelphia Feb. 42/2 Skateboarding—‘street skating’, more precisely—is a sport the way graffiti is an art. |