Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The apparatus by which the blast is produced in the Catalan forge.
- noun Same as
horn , 4 and .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
trumpet ; atrump .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Quaytman Explores Terrain Between Text and Image in New SFMOMA Show Sophia Moreno-Bunge 2010
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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.
Quaytman Explores Terrain Between Text and Image in New SFMOMA Show The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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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:
October 2006 2006
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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:
so many dresses, they're coming out of the walls - A Dress A Day 2006
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Some early painters delighted in a style called trompe l'oeil, French for "trick the eye."
Brain Blogger MA Dirk Hanson 2010
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One of her specialties is a technique known as trompe l'oeil - a painting that creates a three-dimensional illusion.
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Christophe Koziel calls his trompe l'oeil creations -- which also include photographs of antique furniture and accessories for the grown-ups -- "trompe l'oeil, revisited."
ohdeedoh 2008
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The first American furnaces were blown by the ordinary leather bellows, or by a contrivance they had which was called a "blowing tub," or by a very ancient machine known as a _ "trompe" _ in which water running through a wooden pipe was very ingeniously made to furnish air to a furnace.
Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele
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Trained as both a designer and a painter, Braque was a master at trompe l'oeil —more adept than Picasso at creating decorative, illusionistic Cubist conundrums.
A Modern Movement Unto Himself Lance Esplund 2011
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Paul Getty Museum resurrects Ronald Davis, an artist hailed in the 1960s for adding trompe l'oeil twists to his geometric abstracts like "Vector," , while the Otis College of Art and Design focuses on L.A.'s early feminist artists, like Judy Chicago.
A New Home for Arab Treasures Kelly Crow 2011
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The trompe–a sixteenth-century technology–uses falling water to collect pressurized air.
Science of the Trompe – Lost Technology esther_davis 2021
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