decoupage

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  1. noun The technique of decorating a surface with cutouts, as of paper.
  2. noun A creation produced by this technique.

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  • I think if you're a fancy art person, you call such decoupage-y things "mixed media."
  • Sometimes decoupage is too sticky to be fun, and stickers look less than classy. —  azcentral.com | news
  • Here's a confession for my crafty fellow PopWatchers: I'm highly skilled in the art of decoupage. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Luckily for the artistic-deficient among us, there's a great way to fake it: decoupage. —  azcentral.com | news
  • With Easter just a week away, you're probably gearing up for all those annual egg arts and crafts: painting, dyeing or decoupage. —  NY Daily News
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  1. French découpage, from découper, to cut up or out, from Old French descolper : des-, de- + colper, to cut (from colp, stroke; see coup).
 

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