: a picture, design, or label made to be transferred (as to glass) from specially prepared paper
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The Capitals, whose home arena played host to the event, wore helmet decals in their game Saturday in support of the figure skating community and all those affected by the tragedy.
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Kevin Dotson, CNN, 2 Mar. 2025
Brown, 21, shared a three-photo slideshow on Instagram on Feb. 28 — her own look embellished with her signature social media cutout decals, another angle of the entire ensemble and finally Paltrow, then 26, wearing the shimmery dress.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Fox loves adding decals, charms, and interesting nail art textures to her manicures.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 7 Feb. 2025
The purge intensified Monday when, according to the New York Times, former IG office staffers were directed to surrender to their agencies work laptops, phones, parking decals, and ID cards.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 Feb. 2025
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Kevin Dotson, CNN, 2 Mar. 2025
Brown, 21, shared a three-photo slideshow on Instagram on Feb. 28 — her own look embellished with her signature social media cutout decals, another angle of the entire ensemble and finally Paltrow, then 26, wearing the shimmery dress.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Fox loves adding decals, charms, and interesting nail art textures to her manicures.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 7 Feb. 2025
The purge intensified Monday when, according to the New York Times, former IG office staffers were directed to surrender to their agencies work laptops, phones, parking decals, and ID cards.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 Feb. 2025
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“Decal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decal. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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a shortened form of earlier decalcomania "the art of transferring pictures," from French décalcomanie (same meaning), from décalquer "to copy by tracing" and manie "mania, craze"
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