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The art of transfering designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface
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decalcomania
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The process of transferring decorative designs onto surfaces using decals
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface [syn: decal ] the art of transfering designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface [syn: decal ]
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Decalcomania , from the French décalcomanie , is a decorative technique by which engravings and prints may be transferred to pottery or other materials. Today the shortened version is " Decal ".
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decalcomania \De*cal`co*ma"ni*a\, Decalcomanie \De*cal`co*ma"nie\, n. [F. d['e]calcomanie.] The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.
Usage examples of decalcomania.
The solvent would in a matter of minutes chemically attack the paint and permit both the paint and the decalcomania to be removed in a very short time.
Plastic decalcomania had been applied to the fuselage with just enough adhesive to hold them in place for a short time.
Once everything had been stuck in place, the decalcomania had been sprayed with a very expensive clear, quick-drying paint.
If you stare at one spot long enough, the random texture gets interpreted into some coherent image, or the suggestion of one, like an inkblot or those decalcomania and frottage pieces Max Ernst dabbled with.
I remember once decorating a card for Mother with some decalcomania pictures.
Some of them, you will observe, are filling in designs that have either first been printed, or transferred by the decalcomania process, and must afterward be finished by hand.
The spinal landscape, revealed at the level of T-12, is that of the porous rock towers of Tenerife, and of the native of the Canaries, Oscar Dominguez, who created the technique of decalcomania and so exposed the first spinal landscape.
She collects music boxes, dancing bears, cutouts, magic lanterns, whistling tops, decalcomanias, she's just the type for the high-flier.