decalcomanian.

Forms: Often in French form.

Etymology: < modern French décalcomanie, < décalquer to transfer a tracing + manie mania, craze.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: decalcoˈmania.

A process or art of transferring pictures from a specially prepared paper to surfaces of glass, porcelain, etc., much in vogue about 1862–4. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > printing on china and glass > [noun]

blueprinting1815

potichomania1854

decalcomania1864

transfer-printing1865

crystoleum1882

1864 The Queen 27 Feb. 164 There are few employments for leisure hours which for the past eighteen months have proved either so fashionable or fascinating as decalcomanie.

1865 Morning Star 25 Aug. The potichomania..assumed a still more virulent craze when decalcomania was ushered into the world.

1869 Eng. Mech. 12 Nov. 215/1 Gilded scroll-work can be made to show through plain glass by the Decalcomanie process.

Derivatives

decalcoˈmaniac n. one who practises this process.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > printing on china and glass > [noun] > person

potichomanist1861

decalcomaniac1866

1866 M. E. Braddon Lady's Mile 116 The most timid of the décalcomaniacs.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	decalcomania
释义	decalcomanian. Forms: Often in French form. Etymology: < modern French décalcomanie, < décalquer to transfer a tracing + manie mania, craze.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: decalcoˈmania. A process or art of transferring pictures from a specially prepared paper to surfaces of glass, porcelain, etc., much in vogue about 1862–4. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > printing on china and glass > [noun] blueprinting1815 potichomania1854 decalcomania1864 transfer-printing1865 crystoleum1882 1864 The Queen 27 Feb. 164 There are few employments for leisure hours which for the past eighteen months have proved either so fashionable or fascinating as decalcomanie. 1865 Morning Star 25 Aug. The potichomania..assumed a still more virulent craze when decalcomania was ushered into the world. 1869 Eng. Mech. 12 Nov. 215/1 Gilded scroll-work can be made to show through plain glass by the Decalcomanie process. Derivatives decalcoˈmaniac n. one who practises this process. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > printing on china and glass > [noun] > person potichomanist1861 decalcomaniac1866 1866 M. E. Braddon Lady's Mile 116 The most timid of the décalcomaniacs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1864
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