Associations to the word «Trompe»

Wiktionary

TROMPE, noun. (obsolete) A trumpet; a trump.
TROMPE D'ŒIL, noun. Common misconstruction of trompe l'oeil
TROMPE L'OEIL, noun. (uncountable) A genre of still life painting that exploits human vision to create the illusion that the subject of the painting is real.
TROMPE L'OEIL, noun. (countable) A painting of this kind.
TROMPE L'ŒIL, noun. Alternative spelling of trompe l'oeil

Wise words

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis