graf

plural grafs

1. historicaluncommonA German or Austrian count (nobleman).

   Without ceremony, the Graf, on his entering the drawing-room, seated himself at the piano-forte, and proposed affording his new friends "a leetle example" how music was performed in Hungary.

   1843 February, “Graf de Tropp”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 27, page 200

plural grafs

1. slangjournalismA paragraph.

   This Wednesday story includes a graf on Reuters’ stance: […]

   2025 February 13, Joshua Benton, “Trump wants news outlets to get on board with ‘Gulf of America’ — or else. Will they?”, in Nieman Journalism Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Nieman Foundation for Journalism, retrieved 13 Feb 2025

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   Brooks lays out the crux of his case his case in his first three grafs of his article:

   2010 January 27, Matt Taibbi, “Populism: Just Like Racism!”, in True/Slant, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2013

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of graff (“graffiti”).

   For example, a current trend in graf is to simulate a three-dimensional effect (see Figure 1.2). No one graf artist is associated with having developed this method.

   2002, Janice Rahn, Painting Without Permission: Hip-hop Graffiti Subculture, page 7

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   Naar had been photographing the 'palimpsest of writings and marks on walls' since 1955 and he says his interest in graf is 'political, in the Greek sense of engagement with the life of the "polis", or city-state'.

   2012, P. D. Smith, City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, page 84

plural Grafs

1. A surname.
   1. countableuncountableA surname from German.
   2. countableuncountableA surname from Dutch.
2. countableuncountableA city in Iowa, United States.