deco
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- noun
- /ˈdɛkoʊ/
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art déco
- Everything in here is all art deco, isn't it?
- Art Deco
- Deco-style
It's got a great retro art deco aesthetic to it.
- It's got a great retro art deco aesthetic to it.
- It was like a like a really cool sort of Art Deco sort of place anyway.
- Evo Chandor, of course, he, he was lived during the birth of Art Deco.
Examples
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- That's art deco, that table.
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Midtown Manhattan, an elegant, art deco office building with a prestigious piano showroom on the ground floor.
Fiction book (2002) -
- Is this art deco?
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It's got a great retro art deco aesthetic to it.
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And Art Deco is all about modern lines, craftsmanship and luxurious materials.
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Jon's screening room, in its Art Deco pinks and grays, was lined with beautiful, valuable posters from the silent era.
Fiction book (1998) -
The postcard shows a deco white hotel perched on a Hollywood hillside, photographed in sepia.
Academic text (2007) -
The chest is in the deco style typical of the 1930s.
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It's a conversion of a beautiful deco hotel right on Ocean Drive.
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The graceful and technologically advanced complex of deco skyscrapers has been endlessly copied but never surpassed.
Synonyms
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A style of art and building design from the 1920s and 1930s with bold geometric shapes and rich decoration
Compounds
- Specialized
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A style of art and building design from the 1920s and 1930s with bold geometric shapes and rich decoration
Surface Forms
Etymology
Deco is a short form of Art Deco, which comes from the French décoratif meaning 'decorative'. Think of it like the English word decor but with bold, geometric shapes and rich materials, so the name fits a style known for strong decoration in the 1920s and 1930s.