Trompe l'oeil
WordNet
noun
(1) A painting rendered in such great detail as to deceive the viewer concerning its reality
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Etymology
French trompe l’œil, deceives the eye, from tromper, to deceive + l(e), the + œil, eye
Noun
trompe l’oeil (countable and uncountable; plural trompe l’oeils)
- A genre of still life painting that exploits human vision to create the illusion that the subject of the painting is real.
- A painting of this kind.
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