: a picture, design, or label made to be transferred (as to glass) from specially prepared paper
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The truck may also have two decals on the upper rear window, though police said those may also have been removed.
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Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
From trinkets to decals and pearls, jeweled nails are the ultimate beauty accessory.
—Essence, 23 July 2025
It was painted by Maaco Auto Body Shop & Painting in New Berlin, and decals, including the Heirloom MKE design by Sydney Michuda of Super Creative, were added by Signarama Milwaukee.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
Deals for helmet decals run between $900,000 and $1.2 million.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 13 June 2025
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Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
From trinkets to decals and pearls, jeweled nails are the ultimate beauty accessory.
—Essence, 23 July 2025
It was painted by Maaco Auto Body Shop & Painting in New Berlin, and decals, including the Heirloom MKE design by Sydney Michuda of Super Creative, were added by Signarama Milwaukee.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
Deals for helmet decals run between $900,000 and $1.2 million.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 13 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for decal
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“Decal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decal. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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a shortened form of earlier decalcomania "the art of transferring pictures," from French décalcomanie (same meaning), from décalquer "to copy by tracing" and manie "mania, craze"
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