collage

Borrowed from French collage.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒˈlɑːʒ/, /kəˈlɑːʒ/, /ˈkɒl.ɑːʒ/
• (US) enPR: kə-läzh', kō-läzh'; IPA^(key): /kəˈlɑʒ/, /koʊˈlɑʒ/

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• Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːʒ, (US) -ɑʒ

collage (countable and uncountable, plural collages)

1. A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface.
2. A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc.

   Richard Brautigan's novel So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away is a collage of memories.

3. (uncountable) The technique of producing a work of art of this kind.

• montage
• papier-mâché
• pastiche
• decoupage
• bricolage

collage (third-person singular simple present collages, present participle collaging, simple past and past participle collaged)

1. (transitive) To make into a collage.

   collage the picture together.

• collage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• collage on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• alcogel

Borrowed from French collage.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔˈlaː.ʒə/

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• Hyphenation: col‧la‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

collage m (plural collages)

1. collage (image created by placing pictures on a surface)
2. collage (composite created by the assemblage of various works)

• herfstcollage

• col

• → Indonesian: kolase

From coller +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.laʒ/

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• Rhymes: -aʒ

collage m (plural collages)

1. collage
2. (photography) montage

• → Dutch: collage
• → English: collage
• → Italian: collage
• → Russian: колла́ж (kolláž) (see there for further descendants)
• → Turkish: kolaj

• “collage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

collage

1. Alternative form of college

Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

• IPA^(key): /koˈlaʃ/ [koˈlaʃ]
• Rhymes: -aʃ

collage m (plural collages)

1. collage

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “collage”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014