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Meaning of trompe l'oeil

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

trompe l'oeil

Pronunciation:/tʁɔ̃p lœj/

noun

Definitions

  1. A genre of painting that exploits human vision to create the illusion that the subject of the painting is real.

  2. A painting of this kind.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trompe%20l'oeil

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