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Synonyms for graffiti

Grammar : Noun
Spell : gruh-fee-tee
Phonetic Transcription : grəˈfi ti

Définition of graffiti

Origin :
  • 1851, for ancient wall inscriptions found in the ruins of Pompeii, from Italian graffiti, plural of graffito "a scribbling," a diminutive formation from graffio "a scratch or scribble," from graffiare "to scribble," ultimately from Greek graphein "to scratch, draw, write" (see -graphy). Sense extended 1877 to recently made crude drawings and scribbling.
  • noun wall writing
Example sentences :
  • The walls341 of this passage are covered with graffiti and other records of pilgrims.
  • Extract from : « Pagan and Christian Rome » by Rodolfo Lanciani
  • We stayed two days at Eriosh to study the graffiti and tombs.
  • Extract from : « Southern Arabia » by Theodore Bent
  • With reference to the graffiti, one singular circumstance mentioned by De Rossi is worth repeating here.
  • Extract from : « The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 » by E. Rameur
  • There was a guardhouse at the front of the complex, but it was shuttered, abandoned, and graffiti tagged.
  • Extract from : « Makers » by Cory Doctorow
  • Ali Hamid's son took us the next day on fast-trotting camels to visit some graffiti on basaltic rocks about eight miles distant.
  • Extract from : « Southern Arabia » by Theodore Bent
  • The walls of the temple are all marked with graffiti of visitors who belonged to the twelfth and eighteenth dynasties.
  • Extract from : « History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12) » by S. Rappoport
  • The boys of Montepulciano have scratched Messer Aragazzi's sleeping figure with graffiti at their own free will.
  • Extract from : « New Italian sketches » by John Addington Symonds
  • I liked Mission graffiti; a lot of the times, it came in huge, luscious murals, or sarcastic art-student stencils.
  • Extract from : « Little Brother » by Cory Doctorow
  • The best-known “graffiti” are those in Pompeii and in the catacombs and elsewhere in Rome.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 » by Various
  • It is a strangely impressive glimpse of a living past, like the graffiti of Pompeii.
  • Extract from : « Our Hundred Days in Europe » by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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