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Phantasmagoria Fan Taz Muh Gor Ee Uh Noun Shifting Series Succession Things Imagined

Front phantasmagoria \fan-taz-muh-GOR-ee-uh\
Back noun
1. A shifting series or succession of things seen or imagined, as in a dream.
2. Any constantly changing scene.

[Phantasmagoria is from French phantasmagorie, from phantasme, "phantasm" (from Greek, from phantazein, "to make visible," from phantos, "visible," from phainein, "to show") + -agorie, perhaps from Greek agora, "assembly."]

"David Nixon created this version of the fairy tale -- a phantasmagoria of grim goblins, dancing cushions, flying fish and magical mirrors -- for his  former company, BalletMet Columbus, in 1997."

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