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Definition of Oeil de boeuf
1. Noun. A circular or oval window; 17th or 18th century French architecture.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oeil De Boeuf
Literary usage of Oeil de boeuf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. North-eastern France by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1896)
"The guardian now stationed in the Salle de 1'Oeil de Boeuf will admit visitors
... L'Antichambre du Roi (behind the Oeil de Boeuf) was used for dinners when ..."
2. South-eastern France by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1890)
"À gauche de la vis, on observe la moitié d'un oeil de boeuf, dont l'ouverture
représente en profil deux cones tronqués opposés à leur sommet. ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"To the OEil-de-Boeuf it remains inconceivable how, in a France of such resources,
the Horn of Plenty should run dry: did it not use to flow ? ..."
4. Source Problems on the French Revolution by Fred Morrow Fling, Helene Dresser Fling (1913)
"These women named a delegation of four or five from among them who were conducted
by a sentinel to the door of the Oeil-de-Boeuf, where they were introduced ..."
5. Source Problems on the French Revolution by Fred Morrow Fling, Helene Dresser Fling (1913)
"A quarter of an hour later these same women, followed by a great number of others,
presented themselves as in a tumult at the Oeil-de-Boeuf. ..."
6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1908)
"... that the end came—came in circumstances which invest it with an unusual
fascination, and add the most tragic touch to the history of the Oeil de Boeuf. ..."
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