Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

depliage

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
depliage
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from French dépliage (“unfolding”).

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Questions

What does depliage mean?
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.
Where does depliage come from?
It is traced to French.

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