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Coup d'oeil   Listen
Coup d'oeil

noun
1.
A quick look.  Synonyms: glance, glimpse.






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"Coup d'oeil" Quotes from Famous Books



... make a general survey of the gardens and the perspective, he found everything well arranged and most alluring; but a certain vista seemed to him spoiled by whitish-looking clearings that gave too barren an aspect to the general coup d'oeil. ...
— The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete • Madame La Marquise De Montespan

... is rising in his car out of the water, surrounded by nymphs and tritons, all in bronze, and finely executed, and these, as they play, raise a perfect storm about him; beyond this is the great canal, a prodigious long piece of water, that terminates the whole. All this you have at one coup d'oeil in entering the garden, ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 • Various

... side by rows of palms. Here stand, on either hand, the dwellings of the principal inhabitants, bordering the wide space, which continues its straight and shady course for about four miles in length. In the centre, standing in a spacious circle, rises the great Dagoba, forming a grand coup d'oeil from the entrance gate. Two hundred and sixty feet from the base the Dagoba rears its lofty summit. Two circular terraces, each of some twenty feet in height, rising one upon the other, with a width of fifty feet, and a diameter at the base of about two hundred and ...
— Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon • Samuel White Baker



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