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Definition of: trompe
(tromp) noun
1. Metall. An apparatus that supplies a blast of air, as to a forge, by the action of a thin column of water falling through a large, long tube and thus carrying air by entanglement.
2. An arched and vaulted structure that supports a portion of a building. Also tromp. [<F, lit., a trumpet]
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