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Date: 1900-2000
Language: French
Origin: Art Déco, from Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs, a show of decorative arts held in Paris in 1925

Art Deco

 noun
     
Related topics: Visual
Art Dec‧o [uncountable]
AV a style of art and decoration that uses simple shapes and was popular in Europe and America in the 1920s and 1930s
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