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graff
UK /ɡɹɑːf/ US /ɡɹæf/
noun 4verb 2name 1
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3VERB + GRAFF
following, set
GRAFF + NOUN
tree
PREP.
in, off
Definitions
noun
1
Alternative form of graft.
verb
1
Alternative form of graft.
Truly, said Pantagruel, if I live to go home--which I hope will be speedily, God willing--I'll set off and graff some in my garden in Touraine, by the banks of the Loire, and will call them bon-Christian or good-Christian pears, for I never saw better Christians than are these good Papimans.
For where men look for fruit they graff the tree, And study still the rising plant to train; And artist uses to refine the gold Designed by him the precious gem to hold.
noun
1
A steward; an overseer.
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Truly, said Pantagruel, if I live to go home--which I hope will be speedily, God willing--I'll set off and graff some in my garden in Touraine, by the banks of the Loire, and will call them bon-Christ
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For where men look for fruit they graff the tree, And study still the rising plant to train; And artist uses to refine the gold Designed by him the precious gem to hold.
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Just two days ago, I had graffed a piece with my crew and went to Sunrise High School.
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There’s nothing like heat in this light. There’s only what I’m graffing—the swirls and orbs and flecks and tags, the pictures I’m making for Stefan.
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Whilst living in Squatopolis, I remember returning home with a bag of sweaty skip, and finding him graffing a huge piece on to one wall: the squat logo being smashed with a fist surrounded by the word
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Were I not hooked-up, and old enough to be her father, I'd be stalking Alyssa Rosenberg because of the following graff:[…]
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