mise en abyme
mise en abyme
foreign term \mē-zäⁿ-nä-bēm\Definition of MISE EN ABYME
: placement at the center of an escutcheon of a smaller copy of the same escutcheon : containment of an entity within another identical entity : image of an image
Variants of MISE EN ABYME
mise en abyme or mise en abîme \mē-zäⁿ-nä-bēm\
Origin of MISE EN ABYME
French
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