| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | tach·isme |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  t sh  z  m |
| VARIANT FORMS: | or tach·ism |
| NOUN: | A French school of art originating in the 1950s and characterized by irregular dabs and splotches of color applied haphazardly to the canvas. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French tachisme, from tache, stain, from Old French teche, mark, of Germanic origin. See deik- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | tachiste, tachist —NOUN
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