Word: oeil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From these speculations to the fear of civil war was only a step. Would this fear abate, now that the Indo-China crisis was past? Perhaps the only ones who knew were an old Black Sea mutineer and a man called "L'oeil de Moscou...
...irritated, for example, at being obliged to swallow sentences as obscurely pregnant as the following: "In a sense, the noblesse de ĺépée was almost innocent compared with the noblesse de la robe. For the court nobility was at least true to form; the intriguers of oeil-de-boeuf were the spiritual as well as the fleshly heirs of the frivolous leaders of the Fronde...
Tricky Decoration. The principles of camouflage have often been traced, by theorists, back to protective coloration by which nature conceals animals. But much of today's camouflage finds a more apt ancestry in the Renaissance art of trompe l'oeil ("fool the eye") with which tricky 16th-Century artists painted in nonexistent bookcases, windows, benches and tables so naturally that they looked like the real thing. Since modern rear-area camouflage produces many of its disguises with dummy structures and elaborately built alterations rather than with paint, camouflage has become as much the province of engineers...