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Ombres chinoises

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A type of shadow puppetry where silhouettes of figures, often cardboard cutouts, are projected onto a screen to tell stories. historical, plural, plural-only

Etymology

From French ombres chinoises (literally “Chinese shadows”).

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