escamotage

escamotage

(ɛˌskæməˈtɑːdʒ; French ɛskamɔtaʒ)
n
juggling; trickery
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This is a motif that seems to function as an escamotage offered, in turn, by Naples's sad fame of poverty and restrictions that Ferrante often uses to justify her characters' most lowly feelings.
Piacentini, "Xeno-cannibalism: a survival "escamotage"," Autophagy, vol.
For Braggadocio, he refused to meet with them because he did not want to disclose the escamotage of his double and thus risk putting his and their lives in danger.
He then sets out to contextualize Melies's Escamotage d'une dame chez theatre Robert Houdin or The Vanishing Lady (1896)--in which the director makes a living woman disappear, reappear as a skeleton, then return as her former incarnate self--within the "broader cultural fascination with skeletons in the 1890s" (176).
Winner of the show is an eerie slide projection titled Escamotage, 2014 by Birmingham City University PhD student Grace A Williams.
Grace A Williams' Escamotage 2014 slide projection on display at West Midlands Open 2014 |
But, thanks to this escamotage, the Emperor may appear not to have lost his clothes.