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Decoupage

Definitions: Decoupage

Decoupage

Noun

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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Commercial Usage: Decoupage

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Cornucopia of Design and Illustration for Decoupage and Other Arts and Crafts (reference)

  • Restyling Junk: Using Decoupage With Crackling, Distressing, Antiquing and Gilding Techniques (reference)

  • Redo It Yourself: A Guide to Decoration and Renovation With Stencil, Folk Art Painting, Decoupage, Collage, and Mosaic (reference)

  • Decoupage/How to Cut, Glue, and Varnish to Make Decorative Decoupage Objects from Ordinary Household Items - 15 Projects (Contemporary Crafts) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Decoupage

"Decoupage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Decoupage" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)66.67%2245,945
Noun (proper)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Decoupage

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

decoupage

730

decoupage paper

51

decoupage print

23

decoupage plate

22

3d decoupage

20

decoupage project

18

decoupage craft

18

decoupage instructions

17

decoupage furniture

14

decoupage idea

11

decoupage supply

11

decoupage papers

9

decoupage fabric

7

decoupage on glass

7

decoupage picture

7

decoupage photo

6

decoupage table

5

art decoupage

5

decoupage purse

5

decoupage glass plate

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Decoupage

Derivations

Words beginning with "decoupage": decoupaged, decoupages. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Decoupage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decopage, decopauge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Decoupage

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-g-o-p-u"

-3 letters: apogee, couped, peaced.

-4 letters: cadge, caged, caped, coped, coude, coupe, deuce, douce, educe, epode, gaped, geode, guaco, paced, paged, pagod, peace, peage.

-5 letters: aced, aged, agee, ague, aped, apod, cade, cage, cape, capo, cede, cepe, coda, code, coed, cope, coup, cued, dace, dago, deco, deep, doge, dopa, dope, duce, dupe, edge, egad, gaed, gape, gaud, geed, goad, gude, odea, ogee, oped, pace, page, peag, peed, puce, updo.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-g-o-p-u"
 

+1 letter: decoupaged, decoupages.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Decoupage


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 63 6F 75 70 61 67 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 01100011 01101111 01110101 01110000 01100001 01100111 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#99 &#111 &#117 &#112 &#97 &#103 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0063 006F 0075 0070 0061 0067 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

387169818782677371

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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