Definition of "graffito" [graf•fi•to]

• A drawing or inscription made on a wall or other surface, usually so as to be seen by the public. Often used in the plural. (noun)

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• "When the inscription is properly cut into the stone, it is called a titulus or marble; if merely scratched on the stone, the Italian word graffito is used; a painted inscription is called dipinto, and a mosaic inscription — such as are found largely in North Africa, Spain, and the East — bears the name of opus musivum."
• "Second, the fact that this particular graffito is so cleverly executed, given how it blends in."
• "His tomb bore this Latin graffito: "Hic jacet impius Pios" — "here lies an impious pope between two Piuses.""