: a picture, design, or label made to be transferred (as to glass) from specially prepared paper
Examples of decal in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebAnderson would often wave when someone walked by and had decorated her apartment’s walkway with plants and decals of colored birds.—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024 Fencing, more signage and spacing decals have also been added in front of the New York portal to assist with crowd management and to provide optimal spots for visitors.—Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024 Luckily, the star was able to get some red carpet photos with the dress — a black gown with a high-knee slit and sparkly 3D flower decals — intact.—Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024 Music posters, star decals and a working TV with a VHS player decorate the young mutant’s quarters.—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 3 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for decal
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: a picture, design, or label made to be transferred (as to glass) from specially prepared paper
Etymology
a shortened form of earlier decalcomania "the art of transferring pictures," from French décalcomanie (same meaning), from décalquer "to copy by tracing" and manie "mania, craze"
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