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trompe-l'oeil

noun as in stage setting

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It's not trompe-l'oeil for its own sake, but in order to make an imaginary, and otherwise impossible, intervention into nature.

Though the project reads like an editorial fashion shoot, it is a complete trompe l'oeil, composed in a virtual reality.

Its essence is illusion, I think, but illusion taken in a different sense from optical illusion—trompe-l'oeil.

In multiplying reforms, one only multiplies shams (trompe-l'oeil).

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to trompe-l'oeil, such as: film set, mise en scène, scenery, set, setting, and stage set.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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