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• n  a sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below
• v  mark or print with a stencil

• A few meters further, a long panel was covered with a menagerie of rhinos, lions and mammoths among red dots, hand stencils and handprints.
• When I caught up with the artists--Faris Arouri, Yousef Nijim and Raji Najam--Nijim was shooing a herd of goats away from his stencils, which were lying on the ground.
• Hand stencil in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cavephoto: French Ministry of Culture.

News & Articles

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• Pasadena: High Point club wants people to know where stormwater goes
  When Stoney Creek Master Watershed Steward and High Point resident Rhonda Harrison wanted to get storm drains stenciled around High Point Elementary School to make people aware of where waste water go
  June 12, 2013 - CapitalGazette.com
• Gifts for the mountain-dwelling dad
  Special to the Daily Darn Tough Vermont socks ($15 to $17, Valbruna). Special to the Daily Tin Cup Golf Ball Marking Stencil ($19.95, The Uptown Store in Minturn).
  June 7, 2013 - Vail Daily

Quotes

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• Lindsay Lohan in msnbc.com
  Last night on Twitter , Lohan wrote to a friend about that expletive that was on her middle finger, saying, "Didn't we do our nails as a joke with our friend DC ? It had nothing to do with court . It's an airbrush design from a stencil."
• Vijay Goel in Thaindian.com (blog)
  There have been lots of changes in campaigning. My father contested in 1964 - back then there were single colour leaflets. We used a stencil to print posters,said Goel, who was a member of the 11th, 12th and 13th Lok Sabha from Chandni Chowk,...
• Andrew Jackson in Monterey County Herald
  Tes mostly designs his images on a computer and hand cuts a stencil from that to start his work,said Jackson. "Bask also uses a stencil, but his is more raw and it's more of a painterly fashion. I really like his images."