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pochoir

English translation: stencilling

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French term or phrase:pochoir
English translation:stencilling
Entered by: French2English

15:51 Jun 3, 2011
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
French term or phrase: pochoir
I am aware that 'pochoir' usually means 'stencil' or 'patten', depending on the context, but was wondering what it meant in my text, an insurance document, where it is referring to a kind of damage which would be excluded...

LES DOMMAGES D’ORDRE ESTHETIQUE TELS QUE RAYURES, EGRATIGNURES, EBRECHURES, ECAILLAGES, GRAFFITIS, TAGS, ***POCHOIRS*** ET INSCRIPTIONS DE TOUTES NATURES, LES AFFICHAGES, LES SALISSURES, SUR LES BIEN ASSURES

Actually, I am scratching my head also about 'tags' in this context too - but that will have to be for another question!

... any ideas, folks...? and, in the meantime, beware of 'pochoirs', they are not covered! :)
French2English
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:20
stencilling
Explanation:
"Here are some of my photos of Grenoble's shut up shops, and of other defaced or stencilled doors, graffiti and bill sticking around the city ..."
www.grenoblelife.com/shut-up-shops-–-grenoble-on-a-sunday/

"A war protest in which 179 stop signs were defaced by stenciling the word "war" in white letters under the "stop" has ..."
www.democraticunderground.com › Discuss

"The Aboriginal Rock-Stencillings of New South Wales. Authors: Davenport, Chas. B. Publication: The Scientific Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 98-100 ..."
adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1915SciMo...1...98D

"A fence has been built around the cottage in Soho Square, some imaginative people have been putting some drawings and stencillings on it. ..."
www.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/?format=kml&g...lang=en-u...
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B D Finch
France
Local time: 22:20
Grading comment
Both answers fine of course, but I have to do the honest thing and give the points to the first answer... albeit 4 minutes earlier than the second. Thanks to all contributors... and it just goes to show what you can't see when you are tired.... I have seen loads of this stuff around!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +7stencilling
B D Finch
5 +4(graffiti) stenciling
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56 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
stencilling


Explanation:
"Here are some of my photos of Grenoble's shut up shops, and of other defaced or stencilled doors, graffiti and bill sticking around the city ..."
www.grenoblelife.com/shut-up-shops-–-grenoble-on-a-sunday/

"A war protest in which 179 stop signs were defaced by stenciling the word "war" in white letters under the "stop" has ..."
www.democraticunderground.com › Discuss

"The Aboriginal Rock-Stencillings of New South Wales. Authors: Davenport, Chas. B. Publication: The Scientific Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 98-100 ..."
adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1915SciMo...1...98D

"A fence has been built around the cottage in Soho Square, some imaginative people have been putting some drawings and stencillings on it. ..."
www.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/?format=kml&g...lang=en-u...

B D Finch
France
Local time: 22:20
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 123
Grading comment
Both answers fine of course, but I have to do the honest thing and give the points to the first answer... albeit 4 minutes earlier than the second. Thanks to all contributors... and it just goes to show what you can't see when you are tired.... I have seen loads of this stuff around!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Andrew Bruch: confirmed - Dictionnaire de l'anglais economique et juridique
3 mins
  -> Thanks Andrew - is that legal grafitti?
agree  kashew
47 mins
  -> Thanks kashew
agree  Mark Nathan
5 hrs
  -> Thanks Mark
agree  Dieezah
12 hrs
  -> Thanks Dieezah
agree  Valerie SYKES: "The techniques I use are a visually distinct fusion of abstract painterly mark making and crisp clean graffiti stencilling techniques". www.chriscunninghamart.com
14 hrs
  -> Thanks Valerie
agree  silvester55
20 hrs
  -> Thanks silvester
agree  Ksenia Paromova (X)
2 days 3 hrs
  -> Thanks Ksenia
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
(graffiti) stenciling


Explanation:
In this context it does indeed refer to stenciling, as a form of graffiti, as can be seen here:

http://fragmentdetags.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/tags-et-pocho...

and here:

http://archeologue.over-blog.com/categorie-10807437.html

If you are concerned about disambiguating the term, then I would use 'graffiti stenciling' as the translation, otherwise just use 'stenciling' and rely on the context to make this clear.

'Tags' is an Anglicism and refers to the highly stylized signatures that graffiti artists use to identify their work. See examples here:

http://www.lavi2rue.com/graffitis.php

and here:

http://cyberechos.creteil.iufm.fr/cyber9/Actualite/tags/graf...


MSA-Translation
United States
Local time: 13:20
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  kashew
42 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  piazza d
2 hrs
  -> Thanks
agree  Mark Nathan
5 hrs
  -> Thank you
agree  Dieezah
12 hrs
  -> Thanks
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