: a picture, design, or label made to be transferred (as to glass) from specially prepared paper
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Registration is required ahead of the event and includes the bridge fee, staging, bus transportation, drink voucher, meet-and-greet activities and Trek the Mighty Mac decal, per the visitors bureau.
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Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 14 July 2025
More committed collectors, hellbent on having a big bird decal, will want the 1973 Trans Am Super Duty, of which only 252 examples were made that year.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 27 June 2025
After all, as the tribute decals said, Edwards was one of a kind.
—Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
And that chute man was wearing a shirt with a Jackson Five decal emblazoned on the back.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 14 July 2025
More committed collectors, hellbent on having a big bird decal, will want the 1973 Trans Am Super Duty, of which only 252 examples were made that year.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 27 June 2025
After all, as the tribute decals said, Edwards was one of a kind.
—Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
And that chute man was wearing a shirt with a Jackson Five decal emblazoned on the back.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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“Decal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decal. Accessed 29 Jul. 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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