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Definition of trompe

trompe
Tromp Tromp, n. [F. trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Cf. Trump a trumpet.] A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.]
Trompe
Tromp Tromp, Trompe Trompe, n. [See Trump a trumpet.] A trumpet; a trump. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Meaning of trompe from wikipedia

- A trompe is a water-powered air compressor, commonly used before the advent of the electric-powered compressor. A trompe is somewhat like an airlift pump...
- Trompe-l'œil (French for 'deceive the eye'; /trɒmpˈlɔɪ/ tromp-LOY; French: [tʁɔ̃p lœj] ) is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion...
- Trompe le Monde is the fourth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released on September 23, 1991 on 4AD in the United Kingdom and...
- "Trompe L'Oeil" is the seventh episode in the first season of the HBO science fiction western thriller television series Westworld. The episode aired on...
- Restoration and the July Monarchy. His 1800 painting Un Trompe-l'œil introduced the term trompe-l'œil ("trick the eye"), applied to the technique that...
- a Flemish painter of still lifes specialised in vanitas still lifes and trompe-l'œil paintings. He worked in the second half of the seventeenth century...
- Cephenemyia trompe, also known as the reindeer nose botfly, is a species of botfly first described by Adolph Modéer in 1786. It belongs to the deer botfly...
- Trompe-l'œil is the second album by the indie rock band Malajube, released in 2006 on Dare to Care Records. The album is inspired in part by medical themes;...
- Roman paintings are wall paintings. These may contain the first examples of trompe-l'œil, pseudo-perspective, and pure landscape. The Italian Renaissance is...
- Maigret's Mistake (French:Maigret se trompe) is a 1953 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. It...