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)

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 (file)
Rhymes: -ɔʁ

Noun

décor m (plural décors)

decor, decoration
(theater) set, location
scenery, backdrop
rouler dans le décor
to drive one's vehicle into something off the road

Derived terms

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

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