📚 Decalcomania, noun. 🔉 /dɪˌkalkə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The process of transferring designs from prepared paper on to glass or porcelain. ❗️ Examples: 1. His range of effects is unusually eloquent; there is something of the monoprint to them, as well as elements of the Surrealist techniques of decalcomania and frottage. 2. In each, Krahenbuhl runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques: glazing, impasto, scumbling, decalcomania, fluid linear strokes and so on. 3. There are obvious associations to be made with Ernst's and Tanguy's wet-paint technique, decalcomania. 4. Ernst also later practised decalcomania, a process developed by Oscar Dominguez around 1936, which involved rubbing paint arbitrarily between two sheets of paper. 5. Other imaginative techniques of which he was a leading exponent were frottage (which he invented in 1925) and decalcomania. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic