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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer
2: the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with vanish or lacquer

Merriam Webster's

or découpage noun Etymology: French découpage, literally, act of cutting out, from Middle French, from decouper to cut out, from de- + couper to cut — more at cope Date: 1946 1. the art of decorating surfaces by applying cutouts (as of paper) and then coating with usually several layers of finish (as lacquer or varnish) 2. work produced by decoupage • decoupage or découpage transitive verb