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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | | Copyright

marouflage.
1. Process of pasting or attaching a painted canvas to a wall with maroufle, an adhesive made of white lead ground in oil, a paste of rye flour to which several heads of garlic were added, or other ingredients.

2. Mural or ceiling finish consisting of painted decorations on a strong impermeable canvas, giving the appearance of being the real surface. It has the advantage of permitting the preparation of the decorations off the site, and enabling the canvas to be peeled off and removed for cleaning or repair.

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Lady Freeman ;
OED Supplement, ii, 838;
W. Papworth (1852), v, 39–40

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marouflage

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists | 2003 | | Copyright

marouflage Term for gluing a canvas on to a wall, whether before painting it or afterwards. In French maroufle means a sticky mixture of the remains of paint left in the artist's pots, and maroufler may describe almost any operation that might be carried out with this glue, for example lining one canvas with another to strengthen it.

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marouflage

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marouflage (French: maroufler, ‘to stick down’). Term for gluing a canvas permanently to a wall, whether before painting it or afterwards. The adhesive used is traditionally white lead in oil. The term is also applied to the sticking down onto canvas of oil sketches done on paper.

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