applique

• appliqué

Borrowed from French appliqué.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈpliː.keɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.plɪˈ.keɪ/, /ˈæ.plɪ.keɪ/

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applique (countable and uncountable, plural appliques)

1. (art) A decorative design made by cutting pieces of material and applying them to the surface of another for decoration.
   • 1980, “Quiche Lorraine”, in Wild Planet, performed by The B-52's:

     Has anybody seen a dog dyed dark green / […] / And designer jeans with appliques on it?

• Hawaiian applique

applique (third-person singular simple present appliques, present participle appliqueing, simple past and past participle appliqued)

1. (transitive, art) To decorate something in this way.

• appliqué on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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applique f

1. wall light

• → Spanish: aplique

applique

1. inflection of appliquer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

applique f (invariable)

1. wall light