Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An art technique in which paper cutouts (either from magazines etc or specially made) are glued onto the surface of an object and sometimes painted or decorated.

  2. (countable, uncountable)An artwork made by this technique.

More definitions
  • the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with varnish or lacquer
  • art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer

Origin

Borrowed from French découpage, from découper (“to cut up”).

Borrowed from French découpage, from découper (“to cut up”).

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Forms

plural: decoupages
Singulardecoupage
Pluraldecoupages

regular

Word family

1 related words
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