composograph

noun

com·​po·​so·​graph

kəmˈpōzəˌgraf

plural -s

: a synthetic photograph

especially : a photograph made up usually of parts of other photographs and designed to show a scene that never existed

Word History

Etymology

compose + -o- + -graph

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