Noun: stencil
| Singular | stencil |
| Plural | stencils |
Sample Sentences
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You do not necessarily need to have a stencil brush to paint over a stencil. [2015, Margaret Peot, Stencil Craft: Techniques for Fashion, Art and Home, Penguin, →ISBN:]
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In 2013 a damaged stencil of a rat and an image of a girl hugging a bomb were painted over on the walls of a Fitzroy church by the building owner’s father-in-law, who tried to help out by painting the building while house sitting. He did not know the significance of the stencils. [2016 July 11, Calla Wahlquist, “Banksy stencils destroyed by construction workers in Melbourne”, in The Guardian:]
Nouns inflected like stencil
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Likely a nominalization of Middle English stencellen (“to garnish with bright hues”), borrowed from Middle French estinceller (“to glisten”), from Old French estenceler (“to spark”), from Old French estencele (“spark”), from Vulgar Latin *stincilla, from metathesis of Latin scintilla (“spark”).
2. The verb is from the noun. See: Latin Nouns '
scintilla'.
Verbs referencing "stencil"
Portuguese Nouns
estêncil, Finnish Nouns
stensiili.