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Applique

Postby William Hupy » Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:27 pm

From French, from Latin. A material applied over another.
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Re: Applique

Postby Slava » Mon Nov 27, 2023 8:47 am

Diving further back to the simple 'apply', we find that it's from PIE for 'to plait', as in to plait something into something. Applicable to appliqué, no?
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