Etymology

depliage

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Today it means: A surrealist method in which one removes the staples from a staple-bound magazine, making into one "page" what had previously been more or less widely-separated pages; the resulting "page" can either be kept as is or used as the basis for a collage. Full definition →

French dépliage
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  1. French · borrowed fromdépliage“unfolding”
  2. English todaydepliage

Borrowed from French dépliage (“unfolding”).

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