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.

   • 2024 December 19, Amy Gunia, “Young Uzbeks are finding new markets for traditional handicrafts online”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     Fashionable Uzbeks wear clothing made from the fabric, and suzanis have become popular with interior designers from the UK to Singapore, who use them as wall décor, bedding, or as the fabric for throw pillows.

Anagrams

• OCRed, Coder, credo, cored, coder, Dorce

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin decor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.kɔʁ/

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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