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What is a coup d'oeil?

What is a coup d'oeil? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A glimpse, a glance; the ability, especially of a military officer, to understand much at a glance.
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Many teachers of the Art of War then gave this limited signification as the definition of coup d'oeil.
I walked the whole length of the route before the procession moved, and the coup d'oeil was perfect.
All this you have at one coup d'oeil in entering the garden, which is truly great.
It is, therefore, not only the physical, but more frequently the mental eye which is meant in coup d'oeil.
But I doubt whether the townsfolk have ever seen anything to equal the coup d'oeil engineered by d'Amade.
The first coup d'oeil from the summit of the cliff 1500 feet above the level had suggested what a closer examination confirmed.

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