noun
- an art form in which, variously, small objects, bits of newspaper, cloth, pressed flowers, etc. are pasted together on a surface in incongruous relationship for their symbolic or suggestive effect
- a composition so made
- any collection of seemingly unrelated bits and parts, as in a photomontage
Origin:
Fr, a pasting < colle, paste < Gr kolla, glue
transitive verb collaged, collaging
to arrange (material) in a collage