Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Sgraffito
skra FEE toh, zgrah-

A type of decoration executed by covering a surface, as of plaster or enamel, of one color, with a thin coat of a similar material of another color, and then scratching or scoring through the outer coat to show the color beneath.

Sgraffito is Italian for "scratched."

Used in architecture and in furnishings

Examples:

• Illustration: bowl - Jamestown settlement
  
  
• Illustration: Architecture - Deanery, Cracow, Poland
  
  
• Architecture - St. Paul's Cathedral, London