Word: decalcomania
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of Chicago's Meyercord Co., Leonard Henry Knopf, 52, is the world's decalcomania*king. Housewives use plastic or paper decals to decorate kitchen and nursery walls. Small fry, who call decals "cockomamies," paste them on their arms to simulate tattoos. Businessmen use them in hundreds of ways: for trademarks on vending machines, store windows and products; for instructions on tractors, life rafts and planes (a 6-29 requires 2,700 decals); for tax stamps on cigarette packages. Even casketmakers...
...Literal meaning: a mania for transferring drawings. Decalcomania designs, made of inks, plastics, lacquers or varnishes, are transferred from coated paper to another surface by moisture, heat, pressure or chemical action...
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