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Art Deco
(ɑːʳt dekoʊ) also art deco
uncountable noun [oft NOUN noun]
Art Deco is a style of decoration and architecture that was common in the 1920s and 30s. Ituses simple, bold designs on materials such as plastic and glass.
...art deco lamps.
Art Deco in British English
(ˈdɛkəʊ)
noun
(also without capitals)
a.
a style of interior decoration, jewellery, architecture, etc, at its height in the 1930s and characterized by geometrical shapes, stylized natural forms, and symmetrical utilitarian designs adapted to mass production
b.
(as modifier)
an Art-Deco carpet
Word origin
C20: shortened from art décoratif, after the Exposition des arts décoratifs held in Paris in 1925art deco in British English
style of art, jewellery, design, etc
art deco in American English
(ˈdɛkoʊ; ˈdeɪkoʊ)
[also A- D-]
a decorative style of the late 1920s and the 1930s derived from cubism, based generally on geometric forms, and applied to furnishings, textiles, graphic arts, etc.: revived in the mid-1960s
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