A unit of land area equal to one-tenth of an are (about 10 square meters), used in some metric systems.
From the French 'déciare,' combining the prefix 'deci-' (meaning one-tenth) with 'are,' a metric unit of area. It emerged as part of the metric system development in late 18th-century France.
The deciare is so obscure that most metric countries abandoned it—they realized people skip straight from square meters to hectares, leaving poor deciare homeless in the measurement system!
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