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trompe-d’œil
- Alternative form of trompe d'œil: misconstruction of trompe-l’œil.
- ante 1934: R. Fry, Last Lectures, page 207 (1939 publication)
- The carefully exposed reflection of the fallen soldier in the retina of his shield, which is very much in agreement with the puerile stories of trompe-d’œil—like that of the ‘Grapes of Zeuxis’—which were the stock in trade of art critics like Pliny.