mises en abyme

A form of mise en abyme — A recursive image; an image that contains a smaller representation of itself; especially where the smaller representation itself likewise contains a still smaller representation of the whole image, ad infinitum.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of mise en abyme
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