Definition of "trompe" [trompe]

• An apparatus in which water falling through a perforated pipe entrains air into and down the pipe to produce an air blast for a furnace or forge. (noun)

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• "This group of paintings are very specific to San Francisco and SFMOMA, but there are some common themes that recur, such as shifting perspective lines, the edges of the wood beveled panels that are hand-painted in trompe l'oeil over the surface of the paintings, hand-painted abstractions which she refers to as "captions," intense optical patterning, as well as directional motifs such as arrows."
• "She also has trompe l'oeil are you now also suspecting that I love not just the thing signified by the word trompe l'oeil, but the word itself? book wallpaper, but I don't actually need that:"
• "Some early painters delighted in a style called trompe l'oeil, French for "trick the eye.""