/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Coup dŒil (French)
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A view; glance; prospect; effect of things in the mass.
These principles are presented at a single coup dʹœil.
The coup dʹœil was grand in the extreme.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.