decalcomania

• I've learned decalcomania, and after I take up lustre painting I shall have it simply stiff with drapes and tidies and placques and sofa pillows, and make mother let me have a fire, and receive my friends there evenings. —  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
• Anyone there who calls a cockamamie a decalcomania is stared at. " —  Fritinancy
• I remember once decorating a card for Mother with some decalcomania pictures. —  The Story of Porcelain
• The hat with movement is like a free-hand sketch, a hat without movement like a decalcomania. —  Woman as Decoration
• "The Clerk says," growled Sergeant Velie, "that Mr. Justice Greevey he called up and says he's got an earache, so he'll be delayed two hours gettin' down here while he gets —the Clerk says 'irritated,' which I am, but it don't make sense to me Irritation," frowned Mr. Queen, "or to call it by its purer name 'irrigation' —irrigation, Sergeant, is the process by which one reclaims a dry, dusty, and dead terrain .., a description, I understand, which fits Mr. Justice Greevey like a decalcomania The Sergeant looked puzzled, but Inspector Queen muttered through his ragged mustache: "Two hours! —  PARTONE

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms