n. A French school of art originating in the 1950s and characterized by irregular dabs and splotches of color applied haphazardly to the canvas. [French tachisme, from tache, stain, from Old French teche, mark, of Germanic origin; see deik- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] tachiste, tachist n. |
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