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silkscreen en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɪlkˌskɹin/ (General-American)

Etymology

From silk + screen.

Meanings

1. A sheet of material (originally silk but now synthetic) with areas that are porous to ink and others that are non-porous to allow printing of images, such as on T-shirts.

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silkscreen en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɪlkˌskɹin/ (General-American)

Etymology

From silk + screen.

Meanings

1. To use a silkscreen to apply an image.
   • A year ago, if anyone had told Toronto designer Kingi Carpenter she would soon be silkscreening a U. S. president onto dresses, hoodies and scarves, she would have laughed in their face. 2009 January 13, Andrea Gordon, “Buying into Obama”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 24 May 2010:
   • The wall text accompanying Warhol’s small canvas with 12 electric-blue crucifixes silkscreened on a black background suggests that the repetition of crosses mirrors his Campbell’s soup cans, with the religious icon serving as “a commodity to be bought and sold.” 2007 February 6, Martha Schwendener, “Believers and Doubters, Inspired by the Word”, in New York Times:

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