1.AVPa piece of plastic, metal, or paper in which designs or letters have been cut out, that you put over a surface and paint over, so that the design is left on the surface 〔镂有图案或文字的〕模版,蜡纸
2.a design made on something using a stencil 〔用模版、蜡纸印制的〕图案,文字
AVPto make a design, letters etc using a stencil 用模版[蜡纸]印制
Examples from the Corpus
stencil• Her footprint was stencilled across the thick hand-made paper.• The lead engine had a canvasdodger along its canopy, that was stencilled in crude letters: Look Out, Fritz!• It was stencilled in white paint on the freight car fourth from the front.• The name was stencilledinside a brassframe on the fourth door along.• If they are rather worse for wear you could always just paint and perhaps stencil them.
Originstencil2
(1700-1800)Old Frenchestanceler“to decorate with shiny colors”, from estancele“spark”, from Latinscintilla; → SCINTILLA