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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A French school of art originating in the 1950s and characterized by irregular dabs and splotches of color applied haphazardly to the canvas.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French tachisme, from tache, stain, from Old French teche, mark, of Germanic origin; see deik- in Indo-European roots.]
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