silk-screen

silk-screen
silk-screen also silk·screen (sĭlkʹskrēn') 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.
  silkʹ-screen' v.

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