Definition of "decalcomania" [de•cal•co•ma•ni•a]

• The process of transferring pictures or designs printed on specially prepared paper to materials such as glass or metal. (noun)
• A decal. (noun)

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• "The bank clerk did not go and collect the decalcomania from the car but with a sour look on his face asked Jerezano for his passport, compared that passport line by line with the first Xerox copy, then with the second copy."
• "Ironically, the face itself belongs to a Swiss artist who creates distinctive, hyper-colored, collage-like abstract paintings through techniques such as decalcomania and grattage."
• "The figure from Dalí's "City of Drawers" was used on the cover of The Atrocity Exhibition in 1970 but for me the matching of Ernst's decalcomania masterpiece "The Eye of Silence" is far more successful."