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- of, relating to, or suggestive of art deco design: The new wallpaper gives the foyer a deco look.
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- a style of decorative art developed originally in the 1920s with a revival in the 1960s, marked chiefly by geometric motifs, curvilinear forms, sharply defined outlines, often bold colors, and the use of synthetic materials, as plastics.
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- a style of interior decoration, jewellery, architecture, etc, at its height in the 1930s and characterized by geometrical shapes, stylized natural forms, and symmetrical utilitarian designs adapted to mass production
- (as modifier)an Art-Deco carpet
“decorative and architectural style of the period 1925-1940,” attested from 1966, from French art décoratif, literally “decorative art” (see decorative); from L’Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, held in Paris 1925.