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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 imageVariants of MISE EN ABYME
mise en abyme or mise en abîme \mē-zäⁿ-nä-bēm\
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Origin of MISE EN ABYME
French
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