décor

See also: decor, decòr, and de cor

English

Alternative forms

• decor

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French décor.

Noun

décor (countable and uncountable, plural décors)

1. Alternative spelling of decor
   • 2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^[sic] [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 47:

     Yet Mrs Allen found much favour with the décor of the new vehicles. She also agreed that the levels of comfort were "immeasurably higher" than she had previously found.

Anagrams

• Coder, OCRed, coder, cored, credo

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin decor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.kɔʁ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁ

Noun

décor m (plural décors)

1. decor, decoration
2. (theater) set, location
3. scenery, backdrop

   rouler dans le décor

   to drive one's vehicle into something off the road

Derived terms

• envers du décor
• planter le décor

 

Related terms

• décorer
  • décoration
  • décoratif

Descendants

• → Dutch: decor
  • Afrikaans: dekor
  • → Indonesian: dekor
• → English: decor, décor
• → German: Dekor
  • → Polish: dekor
• → Greek: ντεκόρ (ntekór)
• → Italian: decoro
• → Norwegian Bokmål: dekor
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: dekor
• → Romanian: decor
• → Russian: декор (dekor)
• → Turkish: dekor

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• coder, corde, cordé, crédo