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English word imagery comes from Old French (842-ca. 1400) imagerie
imagerie (Old French)
imagery (English)
(figuratively) Unreal show; imitation; appearance.. Images in general, or en masse.. Imitation work.. Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.. The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.