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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
art deco /ˈdɛkəʊ/

▶noun a style of decorative art characterized by precise and boldly delineated geometric shapes.

– origin 1960s: shortened from Fr. art décoratif ‘decorative art’, from the 1925 Exposition des Arts décoratifs in Paris.

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