Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Coup d'OEil

(French). A view; glance; prospect; effect of things in the mass. These principles are presented at a single coup d'oeil.

The coup d'oeil was grand in the extreme.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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