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Trompe l'oeil

//ˈtɹɔ̃p ˈlœj// noun

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Noun

1
A genre of painting that exploits human vision to create the illusion that the subject of the painting is real. uncountable, usually
"It looked like a private apartment, and yet it seemed also to be a place of business. It was furnished in decorative style with plastic, trick art objects hanging on the walls, geometrical forms of the trompe l'oeil type that intrigue business people. They are peculiarly vulnerable to art racketeers."
2
a painting rendered in such great detail as to deceive the viewer concerning its reality wordnet
3
A painting of this kind. countable, usually

Etymology

Borrowed from French trompe-l’œil (literally “deceives the eye”), from trompe (“deceives”, third-person singular present indicative of tromper) + l’ (“the”, prevocalic form of le) + œil (“eye”).

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