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stencilled

  • past participle
    of stencil.
    stencil
    noun
    a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
  • past tense form
    of stencil.
    stencil
    noun
    a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.

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He rose to prominence after he began spray-painting his now-trademark stencilled designs around Bristol in the early 1990s.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

It took him a full day to broadcast the seed into the furrows, after which he folded away the burlap, barely noticing a stencilled word indicating where it had come from: Odessa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

According to Le Monde, both couples who stencilled the Star of David graffiti were accompanied by a photographer whose job was to put the images straightaway online.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023

A slogan stencilled in red onto the road in Hebrew, Arabic and English by the side of the road read: "Drawing the line."

From Reuters ● Mar. 16, 2023

"He's his name stencilled on all the capes and muletas," she said.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway