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  • noun dated decalcomania

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French décalcomanie

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Examples

  • Many people say that for a male person, bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes, or decorating Japanese pots with decalcomanie butterflies would be, and these people fling mud at the elegant Englishman,

    A Tramp Abroad — Volume 03 Mark Twain 1872

  • Later there was a short period of _decalcomanie; _ and then came the grand album craze, when thirty-three girls out of the thirty - nine sent for blank books bound in red morocco, and began to collect signatures and sentiments.

    What Katy Did at School Susan Coolidge 1870

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