A "phantasmagoria" is a shifting series of images or scenes, such as those experienced in a dream, or any constantly changing scene.
Una "phantasmagoria" è una successione mutevole di immagini o scene, spesso come in un sogno o una scena in continuo cambiamento.
| Front | phantasmagoria \fan-taz-muh-GOR-ee-uh\ |
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| 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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