calligraffiti

In a run-down part of Cairo, a group of buildings have been daubed with seemingly random splodges of paint. From the right viewpoint, the patterns become a poem that celebrates the neighbourhood. The Economist’s 1843 magazine meets the street artists of the Middle East


Arabic calligraphy + western graffiti = calligraffiti
A new art form is born
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英文單字解釋：

daub, splodge, skinful, latrines, whitewashed wattles, bushvelt, calligraffiti

https://word-watcher.blogspot.tw/2009/01/latrineswattles-bushvelt-chattering.html

注意，Google Dictionary推出：有英文字眼的Google Trend圖示，如splotch一字：

splotch

splɒtʃ/

informal

noun

noun: splotch; plural noun: splotches

1. 1.

   a daub, blot, or smear of something, typically a liquid.

   "a splotch of red in a larger area of yellow"

verb

verb: splotch; 3rd person present: splotches; past tense: splotched; past participle: splotched; gerund or present participle: splotching

1. 1.

   make a daub, blot, or smear on.

   "a rag splotched with grease"

Origin

early 17th century: perhaps a blend of spot and obsolete plotch ‘blotch’.

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