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silk-screen

[silk-skreen]

silk·screen

[silk-skreen]
noun
1.
Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
2.
a print made by this technique.
verb (used with object)
3.
to print by silkscreen.

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Silk-screen is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
adjective
4.
of, made by, or printed with silkscreen.

Origin:
1940–45; silk + screen
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