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Date: 1900-2000
Language: French
Origin: coller 'to glue', from colle 'glue', from Greek kolla

collage

 noun
     
Related topics: Painting and Drawing
col‧lage
1 [countable]AVP a picture made by sticking other pictures, photographs, cloth etc onto a surface
2 [uncountable]AVP the art of making pictures in this way
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