marouflage means A technique for affixing a painted canvas to a wall to be used as a mural, using an adhesive that hardens as it dries, such as plaster or cement. It carries an Arena rating of 1420, earned across 72 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, marouflage ranks #926 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #1,375 of 17,142 for Most Ingenious Words, #1,736 of 17,149 for Most Exacting Words, #2,162 of 17,126 for Most Satisfying to Say.
marouflage is pronounced /ˈmɑːɹəˌflɑːʒ/.
Why “marouflage” is a great word
MAROUFLAGE — [Noun] A technique for permanently affixing a painted canvas to a wall as a mural, or a fabric to a surface, using a hardening adhesive like plaster or cement. Borrowed from French marouflage, from maroufler (“to glue canvas to a wall”), from maroufle (“a strong glue”) + the suffix -age (denoting an action or its result). Unlike fresco, where pigment integrates into wet plaster, or lining, a later act of conservation from behind, marouflage is the decisive, architectural marriage of a finished image to a fixed wall. It is the heavy brush-load of adhesive slapped onto stone, the careful unfurling of a painted sky destined for a ceiling, and the final, irrevocable press that seals vision into the permanence of mortar—a grand assertion of art made quiet surrender to architecture.
Etymology
Borrowed from French marouflage, from maroufler (from maroufle (“a strong glue”)) + -age.
noun
- A technique for affixing a painted canvas to a wall to be used as a mural, using an adhesive that hardens as it dries, such as plaster or cement.
- A similar technique for weatherproofing buildings by attaching fabric to the wall.
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