: a picture, design, or label made to be transferred (as to glass) from specially prepared paper
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Keep it simple: Clothing with decorative pieces like lace, sequins, patches, and decals—or even zippers or buttons that come into direct contact with the child's skin—can be irritating.
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Melissa Willets, Parents, 20 Feb. 2025
Agents said Lopez showed them a vessel decal that did not match the Well Craft, according to the complaint.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Melissa Willets, Parents, 20 Feb. 2025
Agents said Lopez showed them a vessel decal that did not match the Well Craft, according to the complaint.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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“Decal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decal. Accessed 23 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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