See trompe l'oeil on Wiktionary
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"categories": [
"Italian countable nouns",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian indeclinable nouns",
"Italian lemmas",
"Italian masculine nouns",
"Italian multiword terms",
"Italian nouns",
"Italian terms borrowed from French",
"Italian terms derived from French",
"Italian unadapted borrowings from French",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"trompe l'oeil"
],
"links": [
[
"trompe l'oeil",
"trompe l'oeil#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"invariable",
"masculine"
],
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"it:trompe l'oeil"
]
}
],
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}
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