oeil-de-boeuf
oeil-de-boeuf the name of an octagonal vestibule lighted by a small round window (a ‘bull's eye’) in the palace at Versailles; the expression has thus come to mean a small vestibule or antechamber in a palace, and figuratively, a royal household or court.
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