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mise en abyme

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Main Entry: mise en abyme
Variant(s): or mise en abîme \mē-zäⁿ-nä-bēm\
Function: foreign term
Etymology: French

: 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


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