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depliage

depliage noun: a surrealist method in which one removes the staples from a staple-bound magazine, making into one "page" what had previously been more or less widely-separated pages; the resulting "page" can either be kept as is or used as the basis for a collage.

Noun

depliage (uncountable)

  1. A surrealist method in which one removes the staples from a staple-bound magazine, making into one "page" what had previously been more or less widely-separated pages; the resulting "page" can either be kept as is or used as the basis for a collage.

Origin of depliage

Borrowed from French dépliage (“unfolding”).

Questions about depliage

What does depliage mean?
Depliage means a surrealist method in which one removes the staples from a staple-bound magazine, making into one "page" what had previously been more or less widely-separated pages; the resulting "page" can either be kept as is or used as the basis for a collage.
What part of speech is depliage?
Depliage is a noun.

Words near depliage in the dictionary

  1. depletor
  2. depletors
  3. depletory
  4. deplex
  5. deplexing
  6. depliage
  7. deplication
  8. deplorability
  9. deplorable
  10. deplorableness
  11. deplorables

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