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Decalcomanie

a transferable picture or pattern, used generally for decoration, as on chinaware. The designs are printed lithographically on thin paper or foil, which is afterward attached face down to a thick porus paper, which serves to support it. It is applied to the surface to be decorated by moistening the film of gum or cement on the DE CANDOLLE back of the design, after which the paper carrier is thoroughly wetted and peeled off, leaving the design behind.

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