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Word: Stencil
Speech Type: Noun
early 18th century: from earlier stansel ‘ornament with various colours’ (based on Latin scintilla ‘spark’)
ˈstɛnsl
a thin sheet of card, plastic, or metal with a pattern or letters cut out of it, used to produce the cut design on the surface below by the application of ink or paint through the holes
Short Definition:thin sheet of card, plastic, or metal with pattern or letters cut out of it, used to produce cut design on surface below by application of ink or paint
Examples:- stencil designs such as fruit
Word: Stencil
Speech Type: Verb
ˈstɛnsl
decorate (a surface) with a stencil
Short Definition:decorate surface with stencil
Examples:- the walls had been stencilled with designs
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