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Also on the Kitchn, an oaty spin on the baked apple, trans fat labeling confusion, trompe-l'oeil foods, and biscuits requiring only two ingredients. — Serious Eats
El Greco's trompe-l'oeil Veronica bears the miraculous impression of Christ's bloodied face and implies the presence of the actual relic of the sacred cloth. — Headlines - Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick
The opening stage direction of Beckett's Happy Days specifies that the backdrop behind Winnie, representing "unbroken plain and sky receding to meet in far distance," is a "very pompier trompe-l'oeil backcloth." — Culture Industry
The exhibition delves into the amazing world of optical illusions and artwork trickery to present thorough history of trompe-l'oeil. — The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
What is wanted, in short, is a trompe-l'oeil that shall be good enough for twelve hours at an inn: is it not so? ' — St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England