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silkscreen

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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.
–adjective
4. of, made by, or printed with silkscreen.

Origin:
1940–45; silk + screen
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silk-screen also silk·screen   (sĭlk'skrēn')
n.  
  1. A stencil method of printmaking in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. Also called screen-printing, silk-screen process.

  2. A print made by this method.

silk'-screen' v.
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