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de·cou·page

   [dey-koo-pahzh] noun, verb, -paged, -pag·ing.
noun Also, dé·cou·page  [dey-koo-pahzh; Fr. dey-koo-pazh] .
1.
the art or technique of decorating something with cut-outs of paper, linoleum, plastic, or other flat material over which varnish or lacquer is applied.
2.
work produced by the art or technique of decoupage.
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verb (used with object)
3.
to decorate by decoupage: walls decoupaged with photographs of movie stars.
4.
to apply or use as decoupage or by decoupage technique: Let's decoupage these maps onto the tabletops.

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Origin:
1955–60; < French découpage a cutting out, equivalent to Middle French decoup(er) to cut out (de- de- + couper to cut; see coupé, coup) + -age -age
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decoupage (ˌdeɪkuːˈpɑːʒ)
 
—n
1.  the art or process of decorating a surface with shapes or illustrations cut from paper, card, etc
2.  anything produced by this technique
 
[C20: from French, from découper to cut out, from de- + couper to cut]

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decoupage
1960, from Fr., lit. "the act of cutting out," from decouper "to cut out," from de- "out" + couper "to cut."
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decoupage

(French: "cutting out"), the art of cutting and pasting cutouts to simulate painting on a wood, metal, or glass surface. There are many variations in technique, but the four basic steps of decoupage generally are cutting out the pictures, arranging them to depict a scene or tell a story, pasting them on a surface, and applying several (sometimes up to 12) thin coats of varnish or lacquer to the pictures.

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