trompe l'oeil

Alternative forms

 * trompe l’œil, trompe-l’oeil, trompe-l’œil

Etymology
Borrowed from, from +  +.

Noun

 * 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.
 * 1)  A painting of this kind.
 * 1)  A painting of this kind.

Usage notes

 * This phrase is sometimes misconstructed as and, which, literally interpreted in French, means “deceives of eye”.
 * In French, is an invariant noun; the same usage is reflected in the plural use of the English . Alternatively,  is treated as a headless noun phrase, to which is suffixed  to form a regular plural form. Still otherwise, some authors form novel plurals on modified etymological bases, such as the technically correct  and the ultimately mistaken ; however, such neologistic constructions are vanishingly rare.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: trompe-l'œil
 * French:
 * Italian: trompe l'oeil, inganna l'occhio
 * Polish: trompe l’oeil
 * Russian: тромплей,, обма́н зре́ния
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: trompe-l'œil, optinen illuusio
 * French:
 * Italian: trompe l'oeil, inganna l'occhio
 * Polish: trompe l’oeil
 * Russian: тромплей

Etymology
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