graffito
Americannoun
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graffiti
plural
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Archaeology. an ancient drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface.
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a single example of graffiti.
Usage
See graffiti.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of graffito
see origin at graffiti
Example Sentences
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“Thus, the monk drew a graffito of a cross onto the wall, accompanied by a prayer with which he was very familiar.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
And the graffito on the bridge over it is being painted over by a man in a hard hat.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2021
The departure from type calls to mind an old graffito on the New York City subway: “Allen Ginsberg revises.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2018
The third century Alaxamenos graffito depicts a worshipper standing next to a donkey-headed man on a crucifix.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2013
Not until the last half of the twentieth century would the graffito in English receive the kind of attention that had been paid it in England in the 1730s.
From The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1 by George R. Guffey
The BBC has learned that Bilyk told police he was recruited into spraying the graffiti by a Russian speaker after being approached on the messaging app Telegram.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
On a street in southern Israel, a graffiti artist paints a mural depicting the filmmakers behind the award-winning documentary "NAZA".
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
“The ubiquitous graffiti had turned hostile. Wall Street was bust. Tourists were afraid to go south of 34th Street.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
On our way up here, we had passed graffiti flamingos on the sides of bunkers and on the path itself, but he had made no reference to them in his spiel about the island’s history.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Every surface is covered in a layer of grime and graffiti, and the air is thick and sticky, like chowder soup.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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