The story
- French · borrowed fromtrompe-l’œil
- English todaytrompe l'oeil
Borrowed from French trompe-l’œil (literally “deceives the eye”), from trompe (“deceives”, third-person singular present indicative of tromper) + l’ (“the”, prevocalic form of le) + œil (“eye”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.